INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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Moldaviaxt.SSR: A significant point of the Moldavian Party Congress (18-21 September)
was the criticism directed at the principal speaker, First Secretary of the Central
Committee Brezhnev, as soon as he finished his report. Kozyrev and other delegates
even went so far as to suggest that "the speaker's affirmations do not reflect the
true: state of affairs" (utverzhdenia dokladchika ne otrazhayut istinnogo polozhenia).
The performance of the Moldavian Communist Party, it is claimed, does not justify the
expectations of industry, agriculture or the people in general. The Central Committee
"has relaxed its attention" (oslabil svoye vnimanie) to the subordinate Party organiza-
tions despite the recent establishment of administrative okrugs and okrug Party
organizations which are designed to make their supervision easier. Secretary Kryzhanovskiy
of the Beltsy Rayon Committee pointed out that although the officials of the new ?krug
Party Committees are still unable to cope with major Party issues, let'alone supervise
the-rayon committees, the Central Committee has never rendered them the assistance they
need. It is said also to have discontinued the practice of calling Party "aktive"
meetings at frequent intervals, which brought about "a lowering of the level" (snizhenie
urotuya) of political and organizational work within the Party.
Brezhnev's attempts at self-vindication and whitewashing some of bie Central Committee
colleagues are said to have "puzzled" most of the Congress delegates. That his report
merely skimmed the surface of Moldavian Party's failings was pointed out by a number of
unnamed delegates who were also highly critical of the Secretary's failure to face the
unpleasant facts and pin the responsibility where it belongs. One of the most serious
shortcomings aired at the Congress was the inept handling of Party personnel matters.
Lack of attention to this aspect of Party activities is seen in the large number of
media6re persons to be found in "positions of leadership" (rukovodiashchie posty), on
the one hand, and the enormous "cadre turnover" (smenyaemost kadrov), on the other.
Central Committee Secretary Lazarev and some of his unnamed colleagues in charge of
Party personnel have neglected their duties to such an extent as to make it possible
for "unworthy people" (nedostoinie ludi).to worm their way into the leadership of city
and even rayon Party Committees. This assertion is heavily supported by reports from
Romanovski3?, Kalarashskiy, Sorokskiy, and certain other (nekotorie drugie) rayons as
well as from the Kishinev City Party Committee.
Secretary Lazarev'schief 'fault, however, is his failure to do a
good job "in the
selection and appointment of cadres to the important sectors of ideological work" (v
podbore I rasstanovke kadrov na vazhnykh uchastkakh ideologicheekoy raboty) l This, some
delegates pointed out, accounts for the prevalence of the above-mentioned unworthy
people within the Party, whose contribution to ideological advancement is highly dubious.
Secretary Brezhnev is belabored also for having omitted any reference to Lazarev, who,
incidentally, did not even take the floor at the Congress.
"Poor guidance of the press" (plokhoye rukovodatvo pechatyu), the Moldavian Congress
learned, ia.not an isolated instance of Party failure. Attention is called to the
conspicuous lack of ideological criticism in the chief Republic's papers, particularly
MOLROVA SOCIALISTA. Hardly a worthwhile article on basic ideological issues has been
published in the past year. Nor do these newspapers appear to be anxious to criticize
ahy 'of the Ministries or other top-level Republican Institutions.
Writers and art workers came in for their share of criticism for the failure to portray
"Soviet
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rea
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as it should be, and for being behind the times in general:
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...Moldavian writers and art workers still fail to notice many
new facets of our reality, do not portray vividly enough in
their works the growth and development of the individual in a
socialist society.
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..?.pisateli I rabotniki iskussty Moldavii no zamechayut eshche
smogikh novykh yavleniy nashei deistvitelnosti, nedostatochzo
yarko pokazyvayut v svoikh proizvedeniakh root i formirovanie
cheloveka sotsialieticheskogo obschestva.
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Lack of originality is imputed to the Republic's composers, who, it is stated, prefer
to confine their creative activities to the mere "adaptation" (obrabotka) of folklore
and other eisting "people's creations" (narodnoye tvorchestvo). Stage production and
native music on the whole are said to be below the required level, and whatever
,successes have been achieved in those fields have now become insignificant in view of
the "growing demands" of the people.
It is.apparent from Orekhov's account of the Moldavian Party Congress, carried by PRAVDA
on 23 September, that Party and ideological issues claimed considerably more attention
than did industry or agriculture. There is in fact no reference to any industrial
activities while discussion of agriculture is limited to a few familiar shortcomings.
Delegate Volnyanakiy declared that both the Central Committee of the Party and the
Council of Ministers are guilty of inadequate attention to the economy of south
Moldavia. Others rebuked the various Ministries for their lack of attention to "the
needs of the interior rayons", although the nature of these "needs" (nuzhdy) is not
specified. Complaints were also heard of the utter neglect of the Republic's' arid
districts, particularly the Hagul Okrug. The Central Committee had not seen to it
that these semi-desert areas are provided with the necessary irrigation facilities.
In Chadyr-Lungskiy Rayon, for example, where irrigation canals were dug and the
necessary machinery delivered to the spot, the equipment is still piled up on the
ground for lack of qualified workers to install and operate it.
Belorussian SSR: In his report to the 20th Party Congress (23 September) Secretary
Patolichev devoted an equal amount of attention to Party activities and to agriculture,
with a few disparaging references to Industrial production. Admitting that the
Belorussian Party machine, from the Central Committee down, is still creaking in a
number of places, the speaker suggested a "broader base" as one of the cures for the
ailing organization. Certain sections of the population, he infers, have been
discriminated against in the matter of admission to Party membership:
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It is necessary to work for a further improvement in the matter
of admission to the Party, and to enroll peasants and members
of the intelligentsia who are conscious, active and devoted
to the cause of Communism.
Unlike some of his counterparts in other Constituent Republics, Patolichev did not
attempt to place a major part of the responsibility for Party failings on the Central
Committee or any of its members. His occasional references to that body were vague,
and its only fault stressed was the familiar "lax supervision" of everybody else's
business. Pustovalov's account of the Congress (26 September, not broadcast), however,
was more poignant. According to him, the Central Committee of the Belorussian
Communist Party was castigated by the Congress delegates for its "superficial, arm-chair
supervision" (poverkhnostnoye, kabinetnoye rukovodstvo) of industry and agriculture,
and Secretary Abrasimov was singled out as the chief culprit. The Central and oblast
Party Committees, they averred, even showed an amazing "lack of qualification" in the
management of their own affairs, that is, the overall supervision of rayon and primary
Party activities.
Agriculture in the Republic, Patolichev declared, is in a sorry state of affairs and it
is there ore "necessary to introduce order" (neobkhodimo navesti poryadok) into the
collective farms. An and must be put to the persistent "criminal attitude" (prestupnoye
otnoshenie) toward the quality of agricultural work which has been displayed in "numerous
instances." Pustovalov's article amplifies the point by asserting that the direct
result of that bad quality is that "many collective farms ...are gathering poor harvests"
(mnogie kolkhozy...sobirayut niskie urozhai), and that livestock productivity is
"similarly low" (takzhe nizke). The. Minister of Agriculture Kostyuk is taken to account
for his "loss of contact with the kolkhozes and machine-tractor stations" (otryv of
kolkhozov i MTS) and for turning the Ministry into a mere fact-finding organization.
The Central Committee's share in the mismanagement of agriculture is eloquently described
by Minsk delegate Mazurov in his reference to the Committee's Agricultural Division,
which is theoretically the highest agricultural authority in the Republic:
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In our oblaet...we are almost never conscious of the activities
of the Agricultural Division of the Central Committee of the
Belorussian Communist Party. The only reminder of that organiza-
ion is the stream of decisions and orders on various agricultural
uestions . .
sebya v oblasti...my pochti ne oschuschayem deyatelnosti
selskokhozaistvennogo otdela TsX KP(b) Belorusaii. Ob etom
otdele napominayet lish potok postanovleniy i rasporyazheniy
o razlichnym voprosam selskogo khozaistva.
Industry is treated far less extensively than the other branches of Belorussian economy
whi heavy industry is not even mentioned. The only ministries rebuked for laggard
performance are those producing for the consumers--the Local and Light Industries,
Building Materials,. Housing Construction and Meat and.Dairy Industries. No details,
hgwever, are offered as to the nature of their shortcomings beyond the repeated
assertions that. their services to the consumers remain =satisfactory. Of some
significance in 'this connection is the fact that the Minister of the Food Industry
Srsoyeva joined the other delegates in the criticism of the Central Committee's faulty
approach to the solution of production problems, presumably food production. She
Central Committee officials, they said, show a scant knowledge of. production technique,
seldom visit plants, and "are guided mostly by summary reports and telephone conversa-
tions" (chashche veego rukovodstvuyutsya svodkami i telefonnymi razgovorami). The
Vi$.ebsk town.industry, for example, has been behind the rest of the Republic for a
long time, and is still unable to catch up with the other cities. Disregard for the
consumers' welfare is brought out also, inferentially in the case of the Belorussian
Council. of Ministers. Acting on the complaint of.the Mo;3ilev Town Party Committee in
1949, the Central Committee is said to have instructed the Council of Ministers to take
immediate steps to improve the welfare services of that city. According to Sikorsky,
Secretary of the Mogilev Party organization, no assistance has been rendered to that
city as Yet--3 years after the Council of Ministers was instructed to do so. The
consumer is still getting a raw deal because, as delegate Glolodushko succintly puts it:
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A large number of enterprises in the Republic are not working
smoothly, are failing to achieve their production plans from
year to year and allowing rejects... First-class techniques are
^ ^ ^ ^ T put on ice here and there and handicraft work methods resorted to.
Russian veivion;
V respublike bolshoye chislo predpriatiy rabotayet neritmichno,
is gods v god me bypolnyaet proizvodsvennikh planov, dpouskeyet
rak... Roe-gde konserviruyetsya pervoklassnaya tekhnika i
sashdayetsya kustarnichestvo.
Pustovalov undoubtedly reflects the official line when he says that a "Stalin-like
solicitude" (staliU?kaya sabots) for the Soviet consumers still characterizes the Party
and Government attitude towards them. The Central Committee and Council of Ministers,
it is true, have not 'F een doing their best to ease the lot of the man on the street,
but they are guilty only to a certain extent. Much of the trouble in the food and
other consumer industries, it appears, is traceable to crooks and thieves among the
officialss
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q r?e s of socialist property have
or a long time exercised leadership over such Republican organize-
ions as the Belorussian Industrial Council, the Grain Procurement
Small-River Administration, and certain others.
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Russian vers on:
Vo glave ryada reapublikanskikh organizatsiy--Belpromsoveta,
"Zagotzerno", Olaveybsbyta, Upravlenia malykh rek i nekotorykh
drugikh--dol.goye vremya'podvizalis prokhodimtsy, zhuliki,
askhititeli sotsialisticheskoy sobstvennosti.
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Ideological affairs, mentioned in passing by Patoliche , get a little more attention in
PIRAVDA's account of the Congress. There is oblique re erence to great shortcomings
uncovered recently in certain philosophical and literary works. Similar unspecified
failings are attributed to the various arts. At least four of the delegates are quoted
as questioning the ideological progress of many of the Republic's scientific-research
institutions which, they pointed out, "are still behind the demands placed on them"
(vae-eshche otstayut of predyavlyaemykh trebovaniy). Delegate Krasovskiy intimated
that in his opinion the greatest shortcoming in the work of the Belorussian Party is
the inadequate ideological indoctrination of the rank-and-file Communists and the
people in general. The Republic's 1,700 full-time and part-time lecturers and
agitators have not materially changed their methods of political enlightenment, and
many of them still display a great deal of "formalism and uncritical attutide"
(formalism i nachotnichestvo) in their treatment of ideological themes.
Turkmenian SSs The Sixth Congress of the Turkmenian Communist Party was addressed by
First Secretary of the Pai?ty's Central Committee Babayev. The chief target of criticism
in his review is corruption within the Party, but agriculture and ideological aberrations
are also subjected to detailed criticism. The Central Committee of the Party and its
officials, he said, have still not mastered the art of "properly combining party-
political and economic leadership" (pravilnoye sochetanie partiyno-politicheskoy I
khozaistvennoy raboty). This is referred to as a violation of both Party and State
discipline, since the tendency of Party officials to "take over" economic management
reduces their functions to petty administrative matters (melochnaya opeka) while the
various Ministers and other industrial executives thus appear to be absolved of their
responsibilities to the State. Another vulnerable point in Party activities, according
to the speaker, is the'"improper" (nepravilniy) selection and appointment of Communist
executives to various responsible jobs, particularly in the ideological sector. It is
personal friendship, blood-relationship and similar un-Bolshevik considerations that
usually determine the selection of high officials. That is why Turkmenia's scientific
institutions were found "to be fouled up with alien elements" (nauchnie uchrezhdenia
Turkmenistana okazalis zasorennymi chuzhdymi elementami).
According to Polyakov's PRAVDA account of the Congress (24 September), some of the
delegates roundly criticized the Central Committee's secretaries, including Babayev,
for his unfavorable attitude to criticism from below. Cited in this connection is
the case of delegate Keramov who made now "critical remarks" (kriticheskie zamechania)
to the Congress Presidium about Babayev's shortcomings. Replying for the Presidium,
Second Secretary Sennikov reworded Keramov's complaints in such a way as to make them
sound completely uncritical. A host of "so-called indispensable people" (tak nazyva-.
emie nezamenimie Judi) has made its appearance in the Republic, says the PRAVDA report.
These ill-starred officials, it is claimed, are never ousted from the Party or industrial
management in spite of their incompetence--having proved a failure in one job, they are
quietly shifted to another position of equal or even greater responsibility. One
delegate disclosed to the Congress that Secretary of the Andreyevsky Rayon Party
Committee Ilbayev, who had been removed from his post for "unbecoming behavior"
(nedostoynoye povedenie), was recommended by the Central Committee for the job of
manager of the Republic's Wine Trust. The Congress delegates are said to have been
"puzzled" (v nedoumenii) to hear Central Committee Secretary Sennikov justify that
move by declaring that
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Ilbayev was removed not because he failed in his work but
because of unbecoming behavior.
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Agriculture is referred to as a very slow branch of Turkmenia's economy, and here again
the Party is blamed for failing to liquidate the unspecified "numerous shortcomings."
No figures are cited for this branch of production, but t)ie ambiguous reference to its
last year's performance is significant.
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Dist year the Republic as a whole completed its planned
cotton deliveries to the State. However, 53% of the
collective farms did not achieve their assignments.
Russian version:
V proshlom godu respublika v tselom vypolnila plan
sdachi khlopka gosudarstvu, odnako 53% kolkhozov s
etoy zadachey ne spravilis.
The modernization of the Republic's obsolete irrigation system, it was pointed out, has
not gone far beyond the blueprint stage because the Waterways Administration has been
behind the irrigation construction plan for years. Delegate Babayeva of Ashkhabad
Oblast complained that the oblast'e cattle industry has been unable to cope with the
prescribed plan "for several years running" (neskolko let podryad), and that the appeals
for help to the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers have brought no response.
"We probably lack the ability to get to the bottom of the trouble", she concluded.
In the field of ideology, Turkmenia's progress is reported to be much slower than the
Party would like to see it. Serious shortcomings, says Babayev, still characterize
much of the work of the Republic's Academy of Sciences and its institutes, the Writers
and Composers unions. Some of the historians, among them Hepesov, appear relaetant to
change their bourgeois-nationalist views on Turkmenia's past. Repesov's recent book on
Soviet rule in northern Turkmenistan (1917-1936), published with the approval of the
Central Committee, is said to be "thoroughly saturated with bourgeois nationalism"
(naskvoz propitannaya burzhuaznym natsionalismom). That this is not an isolated case
is evident from the references to the Academy of Sciences and its various departments
which *have not yet revised their work in the light of Stalin's historical works..."
(esche to perestroili svoey raboty v evete istoricheskikh trudovtov. Stalina...)
Uzbek Secretary Nyasov's report to the 11th Congress of the Uzbek Commupist Party
is the only one that contains any reference to pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism. These are
referred to in context of "nationalistic survivals" (natsionalisticheskie perezhitki)
against which the Party is called upon to "wage a ruthless struggle" (vesti bezposhchadnuyu
borbu). Inferential evidence that the ideological situation in Uzbekistan is still very
delicate, probably more so than in any other Asiatic Republic, is seen in Seluk's report
from Tashkent carried in PRAVDA on 28 September:
CPYRGHT
It is characteristic that at the Congress itself only very few of
the speakers referred in any way to questions of,ideology.
Russian texts
Kharakterno, chto na samom syesde lish nemnogie is vystupavshikh
v toy ili inoy more kasalis voprosov ideologicheskoy raboty.
Secretary Ryazov's treatment of the ideological theme, on the other hand, is even
franker than that of his colleagues in the other non-Russian Republics. It is also
significant that he used the present instead of the past tense in his discussion of
ideological sins. The sinister nature of nationalist survivals, if not exposed may
undermine the very spiritual foundations of the Republic, he intimates. That some
writers and historians are still retaining a secret admiration for the past is revealed
in their "idealization" (idealizatiia) of the feudal period in Uzbek's history and in
the "blurring" (zatushevyvanie) of class contradictions in pre-revolutionary Uzbekistan.
But that is not all. What Nyazov apparently implies is that a sizable portion of the
Republic's intelligentsia is still nursing national grievances arising out of Soviet
domination, as may be seen in
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. their tendency to avoid mention or minimize the greatest
role played by the Russian people and culture in the
destinies of the Uzbek and other nations of the Soviet Union
in their attempts to somehow or other weaken the inviolable
friendship of the peoples of our country.
Russian versiono
...v stremlenii oboyti libo priumensheet velichaishuyu rol
rueskogo naroda i ego kultury v sudbakh uzbekskogo i drugikh
narodov Sovetskogo Soyuza, v popytkakh tak ill inache oslabit
,nerushimuyu druzhbu narodov nashei strany.
A .report on the Uzbek Party Congress broadcast from Tashkent on 22 September, stated
that in the view of some unnamed delegates the fight against bourgeois-nationalism and
the other ideological aberrations mentioned above must be launched first within the
Party itself and.then broadened to include wider sections of the population.
Agriculture. Discussions of agricultural production are confined mostly to cotton
growing, *hich is criticized as disappointing. Although charges of failures are
leveled also at the Ministries of Agriculture and Waterways, the cotton situation is
obviously a great deal worse than anticipated. Some of the delegates even doubted the
authenticity of the current and past reports on cotton growing. The Congress was
reminded, for instance, that in 1951 the Central Committee awarded the Red Banner to
Fergana Oblast for its "exemplary achievements" in cotton-growing. A later and more
thorough checkup revealed, however, that the said oblast did not complete its annual
plan. Most of the speakers at the Congress, including the Chairman of the Council of
Ministers Mukhitdioov, admitted that as the "main cotton base" (osnovnaye khlopkovaya
baza) of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan has a long way to go before it can justify the
country's expectations. (No specific facts or figures are mentioned)
Industr al Production claims only perfunctory attention. There was in fact very
lit t e discussion of that topic beyond the mention that in 1951 many enterprises
failed to cope with their planned assignments.
Kirghiz SSRg Monitored material on the Sixth Kirghiz Party Congress is not available,
the on account of that event appearing its a Lukin dispatch from Frunze carried by
PRAVDA on'27 September. Secretary of the Central Committee Razzakov'e report dwelt
on the brighter aide of Kirghiz life, leaving all the criticism of Party and ideologi-
cal activities to the Congress delegates. Industrial production is mentioned inferentially,
in context of bureaucratic leadership from the Central Committee and Council of
Ministers coin. Delegates Gordeyev, Koeyakov and Senkevich declared that Central
Committee and lover Party officials have practically lost all contact with the workers
and engineering personnel of the plants and mines, and therefore are not familiar with
the actual production situation of any given locality. Others asserted that the
Counei], of Ministers is still "shielding" corrupt officials by quietly shifting them
from one post to another. It was pointed out, for example, that Minister of State
Control Aliev who had been removed from his job for "flagrant offences" (seryoznie
prostupki) was recgmmended by the Council of Ministers-for the post of Deputy Finance
Migstet. The Central Committmeas addiction to paper work was described by delegate
Dikimbayev of Frunze Oblast. During the period under review (presumably since the
Fifth Congress), he said, the Central Committee has sent a total of 1,800 decisions
and directives to the oblast Committees, while the latter have been busy distributing
a similar quantity of paper among the rayon and other subordinate Party organizations.
Ideologically, Kirghiz SSR has not made any commendable progress, according to Lukin.
The Republic's scientific institutions, the Writers and Composers unions still get
"Unsatisfactory guidance" (neudovletvoritelnoye rukovodstvo) from the appropriate
Party authorities. Such poor ideological leadership is said to account for the wrong
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views expounded by the Republic?s historians who
...allowed an anti-historical and anti-Marxist approach to the
treatment of the history of the Kirghiz people, embellished
feudal relations, heaped praise on the khans, war lords...
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elan version:
... dopustili an s or cues y, an imarxistskiy po
osveshcheniu istorii kirgizakogo naroda, priukraehivali
feodalnie otnoshenia, voskhvalyali khanov, voennykh
predvoditeley...
The chie or the Central Committee's Women's Section n uc a ova an the Secretary
of the Kirghiz Komsomol are reported to have complained about the continued inferior
statue of women, and the lack of official attention to them. Feudal-tribal survivals
(fe.odalno-rodovie perezhitki), they pointed out, have not yet been liquidated.
Latvian SSE: Unlike most of the Republican Party Congresses, the Latvian Congress
devoted very little attention to the Republic?s industry or agriculture beyond passing
reference. Central Committee Secretary Ealnberzin merely pointed out that although
the industry as a whole is working according to plan, a number of plants and factories
"are unable to cope" (ne spravlyayutsya) with their production assignments. His
report was more specific about Party and ideological shortcomings, the elimination of
which, it was intimated, is long overdue. The Secretary stated early in his speech
that the recent changes in the administrative subdivision of Latvia--from uyezd to
oblasts--are designed to "draw the leading organs closer to the collective farms,
enterprises and the working masses" (priblizit rukovodyashchie organy k kolkhozam,
predpriatiam, k shirokim massam trudyaschikhsya), and to make Party and State administra-
tion more efficient.* These measures, however, have so far not justified official
expectations since, as Kalnberzin remarks, the same old Party and Government bureaucrats
have merely chanced positions and titles, not their methods of work. This is
particularly evident in the matter of admission to Party membership where "the race
for greater numbers of members" (pogonya za kolichestvom prinimayemykh) is frequently
detrimental to the quality of the membership. The charge is heavily supported by the
Secretary of the Riga Party Committee Malakhova, who stated bluntly that the.,Cemtral
Committee "has lately eased the requirements of Party cadres" (v posledneye vremya
snizili trebovatelnost k partiynym kadram). A number of corrupt Communist officials,
she said, have demonstrated their incorrigibility,time and again "but they are still
kept on the job" (odnako ikh prodolzhayut derzhat na rabote).
Drawing some comfort from "certain successes" (nekotorie uspekhi) on the ideological
front, the Congress proceeded to scrutinize the Marxist situation in and out of the
Party and found it wanting. The Central Committee of the Party, it is claimed, does
not provide the necessary ideological leadership for the Oblast and rayon Party Committees,
and ite,political propaganda in general does not come up to the required level. The
Committee's Propaganda and Agitation Department, some delegates indicated, "is not
distinguished for its initiative" (no otlichayetsya initsiativoy)--its members,
including the manager Strod, seldom if ever visit any collective farms of other
establishments.
Like their fellow professionals in the rest of the USSR, the Latvian historians and
writers are allergic to criticism and self-criticism, which often accounts for
their "politically immature works" (politieheski nezrelie proizvedenia). Similar
unspecified ideological shortcomings are said to apply also to the publication of
text books and translations:
e As indicated elsewhere in this report, the establishment of administrative okrugs in
Moldavian SSR was also said to have been prompted by considerations of efficiency.
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The Latvian publishing administration sometimes releases
nonpolitical., nonideological, and inferior books and
text books as well as inferior translations from Latvian
into Russian and from Russian into Latvian.
Russian versions
Letyshskoye izdatelstvo inogda vypuskayet apolitichnie,
bezideinie, nedobrokachestvennie knigi i uchebniki,
nepoi otsennie perevody kak s letyshshkogo na russkiy,
tak i s russkogo na latyshskiy yazyk.
The membership of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, the Congress is informed, is not
well enough educated., with only 22.5? of its scientific workers holding doctorate or
candidates degrees. The Academy's plan for raising the qualifications of its members
has not been fulfilled "from year to year" (iz goda v god).
It should be pointed out here that all the other Republican Congresses, though
dwel1`ing at some length on domestic ideological difficulties, made no reference
to foreign anti-Soviet propaganda within the Soviet Union. The resolution adopted
by th Latvian Party Congress on ideological matters, as reported by Loginov in
PRA on 24 September, is therefore significant. Beginning with the familiar
instructions to the Central Party Committee to raise the level of the ideological
enlightenment of the Party membership and the population, it calls on all the
Republic's Party organizations
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...to raise the political vigilance of the population,
intensify the struggle against the corrupt bourgeois
ideology, against survivals of capitalism and lecisively
expose the misanthropic propaganda of the Anglo-American
incendiaries of a new war.
Russian text:
...povyshat politicheekuyu bditelnost neselenia, usilit
borbu protiv rastlennoy burzhuaznoy ideologii, protiv
perezhitkov kapitalizma, reshitelno rezoblachat
ehelovekonenavistnicheekuyu propsgendu amerikano-angliskikh
podzhigatelei novoy voiny.
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