INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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DATE DI sT. .2-6 dAtz .5
DATE: 5 August
2 September 1952
Mon .tor4-,cd ,Bra .deastj
CPW Report No. 49--A--- JSSR
(5 Aau uat - 2 September 1952)
IDEOLOGICAL AFFAIRS ..............
PARTY ACTIVITIES ................. 6
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IDEOLOGICAL AFFAIRS
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Follow the ? fficial announcement, of the convocation- of then 19th Party Congrese-enc-',-;;.
5 October, much of the radio and press propaganda for the Communist Party organiza-
tions and rank-and-file members has been geared to the idea of ideological
preparedness and last-minute housecleaning before the Congress convenes. Party
sessions ranging, from Republican Central Committees down to the rayon level are held
throughout the country to air and eliminate the lingering familiar ideological
shortcorings, and pave the way for the forthcoming reorganization of the ruling,
Party organs.
In the 4Jkrs.ine literature and the arts are said to be still behind the times, a
the 14re has been set by the_Cpntral Committee of the All-Ur4on.Communist Party,
through Iahe.m ch-quoted PRAVVDA editorial of June 1951. Pointed reminders oft ,,
of the,,per.iodics..s ZVEi lam. and LENINGRAD which were suspended for assorted ideologcal
aberrations six years ago are made with increasing frequency to "misbehaving" news-
papers. RADDANSKA UKRAINA (14 August) draws attention to the almost forgotten "no-
conflict,theory" (teoriya bezkonflil'.osti) which, it says, "has caused serious
damage"avdsla seryoznoi shkody) to Ukrainian literature and particularly to stage
fitting some m ,gver4ent in the field of art t&j literature, the
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editorial.,declares that there Ns no cause for optimism about the situation as ~t is
today. Ukrainian writers, playwrights and poets are still '!greatly indebted"
(v bl)hhoru horgo) to the Soviet reader and theater-goer who allegedly demand truer
ideology and greater art
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Critics and men of letters have not created any serious
works on the most important problems of socialist
realism ...-on the influence of Great Russian literature
on tie- creative ability of Ukrainian writers.
Krytyky i literaturoznavtsi ne stvoryly seryoznykh
prats, prysvyachennykh zaivazhlyvishym problemem
sotsialistychnogo realizmu ... vplyvu velykoi rosiyskoi
literatury na tvorchist ukrainskykh pismennykiv.
The no-conflict theory theme, however, is not amplified beyond the poignant hint
that it has not yet been discarded in literary criticism, and this branch of ~........_._...
literature is therefore "most heavily indebted" (v naibilshomu borgu) to the reader.
The reluctance of the Ukrainian critics to criticize and the writers to write is
discussed in a lengthy Kryzhanovskiy article carried in the same issue of the paper,
but not broadcast. The notorious no-conflict theory, it is claimed, is apparently
h>c
used to facilitate the avoidance of political and other controversial issues
naturally require thorough familiarity with the Party's decisions on such subjects.
The literary critics are reminded that this tendency, long since condemned by the
Central Committee of the Party, is as hostile to the cultural life of the people,..,,
as any other ideological deviation. The suspension of the publication of ZVEZDA and
LENINGRAD, it is pointed out, has once again
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emphasized that our periodicals, whether on science or on
art, cannot be apolitical; that they are the mighty
weapon of the Soviet State in the matter of educating
the people and, particularly the youth ... and therefore
must be guided by the vital interests of the system, its
politics.
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pidkreslyla, shcho na,hi zhurnaly, naukovi chy khu-
dozhni, ne mozhut buty apolitychnyW, shcho vony ye
mogutnim zaz obom Radyanskoi derzhavy u pravi
v7ykhrovanrnya. r?adyanskikh ludey i osoblyv molodi ...
i, tomi po rynni keruvatysya tym, shcho stanovyt
zhyttevu osnovu radyanskogo ladu - yogo polytykoyu.
Kryzhanovrkiy fens the hevcherko Institute of Ukrainian Literature as one of the
greatest ideological sinners in the Republic.- the classics published by that
organization are said to still contain Userious shortcomings of a bourgeois-
nationalist nature" (eeryozny pr,,&Vlk-j burzhuazno-nat for .listychnogo kharakteru).
Similar dhviatio s are Imputed also to an unspecified number of individual literary
critics who "do not desire to correct their errors" One bazhayut vypravlyaty svoi
po ylky) . Some well known Ukrainian writers And poets, it appears, prefer to
refrain from their noil literary activities altogether rather, than venture onto the
dangerous path of political controversy. Such gifted writers as Kopylenko, Panch,
Vladko, Shiyan and Kundzich are said to have been "conspicuously silent" for a long
r
There is still to much "liberalism" in the Soviet p
ess, says PEWDA editorially on
14'August, Favorable critici of "worthless works" (negodnie proizvedenia) and
"chu y rely "; , a.W " (priatel,kie otnoshenia) among critics and writers in general are
said to cc within the definition of that term. The Union of Soviet Writers is
still lavish with its praises of mediocre and often downright faulty works which have
no place on the pa e of thaw Soviet press or books.. Reference is made also for the
first time to the existence of a "Commisgion for Cri icism of the Writers Union"
(komissia po kritike soyuza ptsa.oeley) which, inside tially, "is still doing an
extremely poor job" (do si'. por rabotayet :ursine s3Abo). The former publications
Z and LENINGRAD are again singled out as examples not to be emulated. The above-
mentioned l1beralism, the editorial continues, if left unchecked, is conducive to a
dangerous attitude on the part of critics and writer, whereby
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the interests of the people and the State are
a,cr ificed to chum q relations and when by writers e ..
lose their sense of reap ons ib ility to t ,e people, the
State and the Party ....
interesy naroda gosu ars va prinosya sya v
zhertvu priatelekim otnoeheniam i pri kotorom
pisateli ... utrachivayut soznanie avoe
otwetstveranost i pered narodom, pered goyludarstvom,
pered partiey
Klimushev, Secretary of the. Ukrainian Party's Central Committee, discusses the
ideological achievements of the intelligentsia (22 August, not broadcast), and
regret ully admits that "a - cones iderahie part" (nzachna chastyna) of it has not yet
been thoroughly imbued with they Marxist-Leninist theory. That is worse, "certain
important groups of the intelligentsia have not yet been drawn into active socio-
political life" (okremi znachn grapy. intelligentsi? shche ne zalucheny do aktyv-
nogo gromadsko-polttychnogo zhyttya). `this -ib t_said : o be particularly true of
Dnepropetrovsk Oblast where such import*nt sections of the intelligentsia as the
'nion of Architects and, the Composers Union''.e left 'argely to their own resources
without any ideological guidance from the appropriate 'arty bodies. The latter
have not even been able to "uncover" the manifestations of Ukrainian bourgeois-
nationalism which are known to have taken place in the Ukrainian Language Department
of the oblast State University.
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The Uka?. ,z a theater and the dram, are still lagging behind the "level set by the
Party," according to a PRAV.DA. UI AINY editorial broadcast on .26.August. The cp.l& Q
c~mnarids of the people, both in regard to ideologica content and artistic value of
age production, are still not being met. It is evident, the paper hints, that all
previous official strictures about ideological perversions in art and literature as
well as the exposure of the unideological features of the opera "Bogdan Khmelnitsky"
have not been taken too seriously by some art workers; nor does Ukrainian playwright-
ing s? ff iclentr reflect the great traditions and influence of Russian art, the art
of the armcat faamou,3 people of the multinational Soviet State," the Great Russian
people.
Critiolsw of assorted "01og1cal failings at the oblas`w and rayon levels familiarly
echoes Rd11. A.Nw,KA URRA.INA.'s sentiments and is similarly concentrated on art and
lite'cat?ara. Reiterating the official dictum that Soviet literature and art are
"Inseparably from the irf snots of the State and the people," BOISHEVISTSKOYE ZNAMY
(15 A xg::c '?g>) asserts that the so-called no-conflict theory until recently prevalent
among the Odessa Oblast =n of letters "brought considerable damage by directing the
creative,ac#iyjties of pla7wr ghts along the wrong path." Without elaborating on
that :,tat eatt,..:the paper discloses that the Odessa Oblast and town Party Organiza-
tions es well a B013HEVISTKl 'E ZNAMYA and C.HERN(MORSKA KCMUNA were recently,
rebuk d by Fl.?1 for lack of vigilance over the activities of the Oblast Philarmonic
Society, C%1 w'or? some, unexplained reason had not been toeing the ideological line.
The editorial Tithk2 e no reference to the sirss of the Oblast writers, but their short-
comings may be deduced from what the paper says-they should do:
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Me ?-rst duty of the writer is to propagate the
noble ide ; of Soviet patriotism, friendship of the
SLR i:ae peoiJle y 'i}.C"t' I ztiirlan internationalism and to
wage an implaeahl.e" struggle against any manifestations
of hostile bourgeois Yeology.
A talk by H . ti o r broadcast f rum Nikolayev on 14 August declares that although
lecture work among the workers is progressing "str"ictly according to plan," the
qualitative aspect of that propaganda is somewhat behind the popular demand. The
worker a, it in claimed, are not sufficiently enlightened on the friendship of the
peoples of the USSR, on the one hazed, and the American "gangster-like imperialism,"
on the other. Maiden the relactance of the leading administrative workers to do
any lecturing of their own rzn to shift the burden of propaganda to inferior
agitators tends "to lower the ideological level" of political work among the masses.
Secretary Novikov of the Irmai_l Oblast Party Committee declares (in Russian,
13 August) that the oblast should serve as a typical example of the fraternal
family of nations of the USSR. It is populated by Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians,
Moidavians and Albanians and is "famous" for its rich kolkhozes, cultural and
medical in t tut.toa-. It i therefore, of paramount importance, says the author,
that t ^:~ ideas of Soviet pa,tnic tism and proletarian internationalism in this area
be propagated "with particular thoroughness and importance." This/however, is not
the case in Tatarburs .ry Rayon vhe're lecturing on the friendship of nations is
considerably below the required ideological level. In some of the rural districts
there is admittedly much work yet to be done "to cultivate among the kolkhozniks a
feeling of friendship toward other peoples, above all else toward the Great Russian
people." Novkov asserts also that tere are other "serious shortcomings" in the
political work of that multinational oblast, as revealed at the current election-
and-report meetings, but offers no further details.
lecture propaganda is also the object of discussion in a broadcast from Stavropol
of 14 August. The krai Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific
Knowledge is said to underestimate the cultural demands and intelligence of the
population by simply refusing to l.ecture. The Society's Biology Section, for
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aat4:?3,. `,c is doing ev,.
?,,; :. n that. The re~utthe familiar "'
~ v~las l ut l on the quality o.t' tie fe lectures that have been delivered so far,
and the odd ro"son given for this short com shortcoming is that the speakers show "a poor
knowledge o : the (n-, ntents of lectures. $' The only other reference to ideological
i:u gelax?it.iti in the RG.SFSR is contained in a Kurtyn.in dispatch from Leningrad of
16 giot broadcast). It has bee-la revealed at the recently-held city rayon
Pa:E;t co ?enc o hat" the Part orgai zations have been dere:-act in their super-
S,i; over, t' `-t .logical activities of the local universities, particularly their
ciepa = -ient.s oa.. 'cec gal and ti c:on,,7uic sciences. Even the Gorky Boishoy Theatre is
rep s, U ets tQ have slipped c ot of ii kart, ce)utrol, and is showing, grave deficiencies
in ttu i ', m al due atlc'r:i t ,, FS .,
?~? v xlt i~s. 'I~? that caul V ,
T' Teen preven'"
sa:,y4, Kurt ;rri i, ?~~: the upper echelons of the city's Party had shown airy interest .ten
the xgor~, { thfK, rimavy or?ga.ni7at?;.ons including those of the universities and
sci.er t,.i.trc^ march instil cA,,mro
Increus,ed ate an' , side of
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the L3ratne i.,s evidenced by dv .i.labl,? mate-rig~l from some of t:hc, ;e areas. Although
most of these reports 'to elate -the official announce- i+ r' ; - -,ter 1~,fih 0,,,,4-
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x'E'C$G!ki"
crit icc
from Asj
the renew
s Mfr:?.~~
Congresi,i nape ors 20 August ;Encl contain no inkling of it, it is safer c as n? z,'c that
expoo .,i a "ra id bourgoeoi y natsionalist). The
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"election., t-raining and distribution of Party cadres, particularly "ideological
workers" .. ideolog i.cheskie rabotn.iki) still leave much to be desired according tie
repot ?l~..:< ~, i e~; al.ed a1 so tL.a t aver tw l6 OU& snd e"sped iets" are now engaged
in ?tesee fields of 1:t.teratore, art, and public health but 'the results of their endeavors
sty far have nott he,en. -taoo encour+,ging. Foremost among the other ideologic:al
irregu3ar4,~1~ r, a. rid at the ,st ssion .g the disclosure: that
po;s1t1o o
..eac.ership. O. Abdal.ov,;for example, until recently a leading official
of the C xt ~ l .,'mm i t tee a.n _r? r ie f' elit or of the "Turlmengosizdat"g, has now been
r?ied b PRA 12 u st not bra
by bgu(., ., 4,, -,s of the srr
can Party son . It was pointed out that the relaxation of Padtty
~.. ,~ .+. .. `9 .Y .A.. , ._ . 9 . ... :i - _~ _. w - _.9 _ ~ d M '.^M.'~' _ , o ~f .. a _ _. _ '. ?I,',~"^-M',t 9iF'*',
mate zt ne ib'< bnt::" zr;Amber s? ' p, t, o: ble char?acters'1 to oat their ray lqaU
nar~t-w~ ., p
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terest in the de6log'ical life of the various Republics is in some way
n ttze pr ions or the irrl v 'v 3f Soviet "vent .fir. unsigned dispatch.
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cerLa.in Party cc ?rLittf e s do not. offer 'the necessary.
pracou.ragement to criticism from below, and tacitly
cooperate with the violators of Party and State
discipline.
Russian version:
, . _ nekotorie part iynie komitety ne okazyva pit
dolzhnoy podd6rzhki kritike, i.du shchey snizu, potvor-
tvuya.t narushite"lyam part.iynoy i gosudarstvennoy
dists ipliny.
A ZAR .A VOST0X editorial, broadcast from Tbilisi on i4 August says that Georgian
literature !"i .not ;Free of deficiencies and mistakes," a heritage left by the
lea.d Ship of the Central Comuaittee of the Georgian Communist Party. That
lea-dership the paper, pt-alt ..va.ted an atmosphere of complacency and indulged in
"unwarra i~ed far:fare" (paradnaya. shu'mikha) which put Georgian literary criticism on
the "w'r?ong path."" The considerable successes achieved. to date "do not give us the
right"" (ne dayut warn pravo) to Whitewash the numerous shortcomings and mistakes
still No eliminated, the Pditoria,l continues. The newspaper LITERATURA DASELOGLEBA
and the periodical (L`VATOBE~, it " ,ears, have been st-raying from the ideological
fold by perrpitttng the public,at?ion of "articles devoid of ideological significance."
(No n h, , s offered, how er, as to why 'the mentioned articles failed to
m ee 'W the:."?g ca l rer ax? e,it.
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roa MY snows what the
s tM, o.a of leading J~ ax:7a is personnel can do to the Party. The Central
.. t :l Ta v .i cent cc rr." "J.'''i? In PRA l on 15 August (not b A
...-Q. "Aul_7Lm" as aeaa of.
51i 9 ~t Oblast party Co1?'a Ltee without a proper investigation of his past.
rio 1 no ?4 A
M Q n hi_s new post, this official is said to have "fouled
on organizations with casual and criminal elements" (
zasoril a ,eret
tw oImv b or:?ganizatsiy MOWN i. and pre,stupnyni elementami). Similar 'crude
n 0tayes" (g,r' l,ie oshibki) are reported to have been made by the Samarkand and
, ,"` Oblast Party Committees which promoted "unworthy 106,11 ,., ~,.s~~%m n "unworthy 'rtwhy people" (nn5nc3t, [~:V'.C1V 1Cl?
? .t . see. - r , - -
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vPadtaJla lus caares" (po podb0rus
v0s tOf i r,ro ag'andi.stskikh NOW. This body is criticized also) indirectly,
;,A ` "' , t^ k on the Uzbek Ministry
r of Education whose insufficient
th
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us
asm for
ativ`-Ie in the schools is evidenced by the continuing
acs `! of Russian iangak. g eachers gi n th
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. .gncance of the
in Uzbek vduca o)-4 Inci.dental.l is
~f~sl~l:a a~~.c~v4a MOO Park u.r ~~, ,Y, pointed out by ILurbanov of the
Park o admitted among other things that
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r. any graduates of the obiest middle schools were
unable to enter higher institutions of learning
because of their inadequate knowledge of the Russian
1.a.-: ruage.
rrypusl iikl srednikh shhol oblasti ne mogli
c~ro~lw za plovbao
MEN= v e ucl_ ,ebnie ?.vedenia. ik-
o
g
_Qy~ ud3.CLU Ullu recen , plenary
o sw n the central Con nitt;se of o l;arelo-Finnish SLR. found certain aspects
of h try -? t ae ?a ideological activities v o be unsati yfactory It .a..~J'
lil..~. that '~;l~. the Central . has l a/ ? 1 revealed at
: n t,P has ~how,a no inclination to raise the admittedly
low lac ?,l of ideological training of Farty personnel, and has failed to staff the
"ideological institutions" (ide l ogicheskie uchrezhdenia) with hqualified
work
q{(_ ,p,sa ~} l1~~u?' blamed for his highly
ers. Committee kor 6 {, .a'rgy T Metkoy~T >G~ ..s ~1r~lamed .Loi. intolerance a:..'.y
't oJ. ,['~ Qy
erj tic.L`",. w=ing once the lower Party organizations, which on several occasions
trI N U. his sttentio to e existing ideological failings within the Par. State W . ".L~ F~L:~:"`t~n~l' 3~'1 ~?P'"'~Yslir:~, ~,. ~..... 'i, , .M'F, r...,....,... _ _ _ -.y _ -,~-o - ~ - - ~.
A tOllaO - SO` CIALIST?A editoriial, (30 August) hints darkly at the unfavorable findings
o' the x E . plenary less Y of thc:, Moldavian Communist Party, but furnishes no
elc r"' l Y?a:c o.^td the remark that the "shortcomings in the ideological work" in the
Mic.,:..,.;. inn Republic must be r1.i?aai.nnteel.
MRTY ACTIVITIES
P?'rty per^rounnei problems still claim a. great deal of attention in view of the
contention that careless screening, selection and distribution of Communist workers
Lr v ire source of most int-vaparty evi1s. High handed. adhinistration (adminis-
~'~ nepotism and "chummy relations-" (priatelskie otnoshenia) among
officials are branded as r:Lc 7~x ;i n o;' Party and State discipline, and in some cases
e i tan. awo?.int to antiparty actlv3ties. The long struggle against fear and suppres-
sion of criticism, par?tic;uuParly criticism "from below" (snizu), continues unabated.
The practice of Communist officials and organizations of supplanting economic
na ageman-t al ways frorned upon. by the Party, has admittedly not been entirely
abo i,.F_r.hed .
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'Tts who is afraid. to admit his own ohortcomings and resents criticism from others,
says RADYc.ASK;. UIiRAINA editorially on 13 August, merely facilitates the re:.etiti.on
of new and possibly greater shortcomings wh_t_ch may lead to the colla_ose of the,
=~:ttire ca `,_~e-training system. Taken in ccen,ext, this statement refers to de~9elic -
ti-on of da t by Co2:.unist officials on the oblast level who bear final responsibility
for '(1t: aj. -oi :tments of key Party officials to rayon, town and lower organizations.
In the =utiLLky Rayon Party Cornrtittee, Chernovets Oblast, for example, the local
officials "adopted the practiec of indiscriminate praising'! (scaly na shlyakh
zahhvaL,ivainya) of their subordinates regardless of their admitted shortcomings and
t. iols:t .arno of Party and State dise.1-)line. Some of the off:i r:ials have in fact gone
to e ?t:rmm,_~.- in their endeavor to "protect" themselves and their, cronies from
unfa.vorcblcriticis :t. They
forbade tl:e: rayon rf,ropaper to publlslh :uaterials
exposing "tAhe violators r'ozhye and Ternopol Oblasts, but the tendency to keep and
protect the obviously urs~ ~~ l;al; lc officials in their present position to the detri-
ment of Party and State inter: sts '3 by no means confined to the above named areas.
In a PRA '' ?. a t;icle published on 13 August (not broadcast), Pishhenia :? attributes the
poor parfa oi.viance of the., Ministry of the Lumber Industry to the selection of the
wrong ~~ :a ~ .?r _el. by the Min.ia, :r3 s~ Tarty organization. More than /,,.0 _jerrcnt. of the
available engineering and technical staff have no college or middle school education,
and a is vuber of key positions ix the Ministry have remained unfilled for some time
now, the authcr? declares. Far from doing its share in the matter of removing "the
loafers and bureaucrats" (bez,de1?o.iki 1. burokraty.) from the Ministry's personnel, the.
Party organization. i; said to h-=re connived with certain off cislr to introduce a
nu aber^ of obviously,,, un sirabie orkerso
Acting in connivance with the Party Committee and
Party organizations, certain Communists recommended
the employment of people who had not been sufficiently
investigated and whose qualifications were i:novr to
be inadequate.
Russian version:
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voey delovoy lc:valifikatsi.i ludey.
edostatochno proverenni1 r i zavedormo neprigodnykh Sao
ekotorie kommun.it?t,y pri popustitclstve partkoma:. i
artiynykh organizatsiy rekomendovali na rabotu
These shady machinations, it is intimated, are greatly facilitated by suppressing
any criticism from the rank and file Communists, which in turn creates an apathetic
,ttitude toward work in general. Cited as proof of this is the recent meeting of
the Mintry's Communist staff called to discuss current affairs. Of the 430 members
present only ICJ suatmoned sufficient courage to participate in the discussions: "Tile
meetir_.,.? was a patent farce, and criticism of shortcomings wc: reduced. to naught"
(Sobrar.ie yavno bylo skor&kano; a kritika nedcstatkov svernuta).
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A short item broadcast from Odessa on 13 August quotes CHERNCMOR . $CUUN& as
"s 'biecting to severe criticism" a number of unspecified Party organs which "violate
the principles" of selection, distribution and education of pomaMwte The problem
of Communist and other Personnel in Kirovograd Oblast is trotted too lightly and
"shortcomings of a serious nature" still occur, according to a rn RADW PRAVlaA
editorial of 16 August. Reiterating the familiar complaint that iuportant Arty
posts are hid by "chance persons" (sluchainie lu.di), the paper asserts that there
can be no question of improving the organizational work of the Party apparatus
before these "unworthy elements" are weeded out, High handed Cerr niat actainistrators,
like those of the Kirovograd town-i Party for example, not only fall to consider, the
opinions of other. Party members, they do not even bother to consult technical
experts when dealing with problems of industrial production? KYelevekiy,
Rovnyar ki;r and an unspecified number of other rayon Party Camitteee are thus accused
of 4fbehavior unworthy of. Com,,iunists ar rnvhere."
The supplanting of economic management by Party Committees, which theoretically are
called upon to g.iide, but not to interfere with the operations of non-Communist
organizations, is the object of virulent criticism by PRAVDA of 12 August, Declaring
that economic and political work are "indivisible" (nerazdel~i7v}, thedlsorial
nevertheless draws a line between the two and suggests that Pasty ot .3iations
confine their "guiding and enli b teni_ng activitiean within the preacr d.l mits and
refrain from assuming other pops !t~.notione. A gls.rixrg eiainp pi'' .c'h Communist
encroaclment upon the duties of, }hers is cited in the case of the Nepterov Rayon
(Kaliningrad. Oblast) Party Comtni-ee, which took it upon itself to !'allocate coal to
kolkhoz smithies, fodder to livestock farms and so on" (raspredeline u ZJa dlya
kolkhoznykh kuz:,_ts, kombiniro'var~nykh kormov dlya zhivotno'vodche3'kikh term I t.p.).
This practice of "supplanting" (podmena) industrial and agricultiaral"TaAnagegtent is
also said to have been observed in some rayons of Krasnoyarsk Kral ana Tither unnamed
places. The editorial reveals, also that in parts of felorussia 6nd'kaluda 'and
Velikie Luki Oblasts the Party o:r^ganizations frequently disregard - h.e es ablished
chain of Party command, by sending representatives to "take over" tie's Irs of
collective farms instead of helping the latter manage their own affairs "thrpugh the
medium" of the primary Party organizations.
PRAVDA. and RAD:ANSKA UKRAINA, referring to the revised Party statute as announced on
20 August, remind their readers that democratic centralism is still one of the
basic tenets of the Communist bible. Thus PRAVDE (23 August) yorese;ntsi 'a lop' list of
chronic Party ailments which in its opinion demand immediate attention in view of
the approaching 19th Party Congress. An intimation that continued suppression of
criticism from below will not be tolerated much longer is contained in the' follow-
ing itatement<
The suppression of criticism is a grave evil. He who
suppressed criticism, replacing it by fanfare and loud
praises, has no plaoe in the ranks of the Party.
Russian vers
Zazhim kritiki yavlyaetsya tyazhkim zlom. Tot, kto
glushit kritiku, podmenyaet eyo paradnostyu i voskhva-
leniem, no mozhet'nakhoditsya v ryadakh partij.
Pursuing the theme, the editorial says that the only way to insure the proper guidance
of the masses is to have the Party organized on strictly "centralist" 'lines, as out-
lined in the revised statute, so that the minority is subordinate to the majority
and the decisions of higher Party instances are binding ?n the lowerone But such
conditions, the paper hints,'have not always been observed within thePa y hierarchy
and intraparty democracy has often been reduced to a'theoretical concept n. The
revised Party statute is designed to do away with the abuse of lower o the part of
Communist officials which has minimized the efficacy of intraparty democracy:
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... the draft statute outlines the conditions that will
guarantee the Party against abuses of intraparty democracy
or the part of antipart - elerce- ts; conditions under which
irxtraparty democracy 'gill benefit the cause and will not
be used to hate the Party and the working class.
version:
? ? ?'v proekte uka.zyvs,yo.tsya uslo ia, kotorie mcgut
garantirovat partiu of :zloupotreblenly vnutri-
pa.rt:iynoy derttokratiey so Vtorony anti:partiynykh
elementov, uslovia, pri kctory' h vnutripar-ti.ynaya
d.e ,ok-ratia poidet na pcilzu delu i tie budet ispolzovana
if + real part ii i rahoche-Au kclassu..
RAD NSL I.I AIM4 (29 August) is even more outspoken on Party evils than the above-
quoted PRAV editorial. Discussing the be efits of the revised Party statute and
their effect on the actual and pote._t',ial Coi tunis t sinners, the paper makes the
(usual admission that the divulgence of State secrets is one of the misdemeanors
under co si:Feration:
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
I xtensive evidence is available that some CorrQnunists
rre hiding the ti-uth from the Party, divulging party
nd. State secrets; there are cases of political
arel.essness and sloth ... each of these vices is a
r? 'at evil which brings harm to the Party and hinders
r? forward movement.
1Jkra'i:an i an version.-
&?r ed chastyny kcvrtinist i.v nabuly poshirennya fakty
pr ykia ~'w~txvsxnya prav(';r vil part ii, rozgolo,>hexar,s. ')ar-
tiyno'y i derzhav'rto,y l.aent:ytsi, may',t rrtistse Droy'avy
poii?l.ychnt:)y bezturhotnosti i rol;oz: z
tsy ll,i por^oki'v ye. ve lyi ynn zlom, shcho zavdaye shkody
par t i i. b gahrmuy-'e nash rakh vpered.
Nor is i Ga.e cause of intraparrl;y democracy Se.rreu much by the prevailing m1sunder-
r tand.ing of , P rtyr d3sciplirre, according to the paper. Certain C rimrtunists
erroneously believe. in the existence of two degrees of Party discipline: One
fir the rank and. file members and another one for the leaderst' (ocina dlya ryado"yih
chleni;, insha-dlya kerivt.sykiv). This, too, 7 :s termed tta great evil" sr r .
and t!- intimation is that it will be remedied under the new Party statute. zlo),
Following are extracts fresrn sc. e of the xzume,rr_ .s items on Cortrtnunist failings aired
at Party conferences at the town anti rayon ccztir,3ttee level:
J.ta August--Thus during the fifth Rayon Party conference in Ovideopol ... the Commun .sts
crxt icj. ed the Rayon Party Cors~nittee for allowing shortcomings in the leadership
of primary Party organizations in ko;tkhozes, sovkhozes and machine-tractor stations....
(c1?iFRiit U1OISic. KW NA)
.
17 .gut--The secretary of the Kursk torn Party C! nr,'.ttee ... also rioted serious
shorteom:i.ngs in the activities of the tot+n and Rayon Party Coazt.ittees and the
pr unary organizations of Kursk town.
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17 August--The plenary session of the Adzhar Oblast Party Committee of the Georgian
Communist .,Party ,.. relieved comrade Midzheradze from his post as second secretary
of the Adzhar Oblast Party Committee because of his.inability to cope with his work,
and expelled him from the Party Bureau. (Tbilisi in Russian)
25 August--...the conference exposed serious shortcomings and mistakes in the work
of the Tashkent town Party Committee. It demanded that all Party leaders
establish the necessary conditions for the wide development of sharp Bolshevik
criticism and self-criticism. (Tashkent in Russian)
25 August--The speakers and those taking part in the Stalino town Party conference
noted several shortcomings in the work of the Stalino town Communist Party
organization (no details given).
29 August--It is noted that at a number of conferences and accounting-election Party
meetings rayon and town Party Committees and many primary Party organizations
have not yet learned how to combine political with economic work. They have belittled
the importance of political work for the purpose of gaining economic successes.
(KRYMSKAYA PRAVDP )
27 August--Certaixi,Communist leaders may still be found, however, whose attitude
toward the principle of criticism is inadmissible. They see in it a danger to
their authority, and try to discredit those who criticize them. (STAVROPOLSKAYA
PRAVDA )
30. August--The editorial also notes the lack of high level criticism and self-
criticism. This is particularly the case with the Kostrorm,,,Susaninskiy and
Ponazyrevskiy Rayon Party conferences (SEVERNAYA PRAVDA).
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