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PRAVDA covers the usual wide range of public economic and political activities, placing a
little more than usual stress on the Komsomol and on ideological matters in general. The ."
Soviet engineer, acknowledged representative of the Soviet intelligentsia, is taken to account
(2 June) for his "impersonal attitude to progressive suggestions and ... inadequate support
of creative initiative." The editorial reminds the engineer that he is responsible "for
putting into practice all discoveries of science and technology," and hints that he has so
far failed to live up to that responsibility:
Some sunh engineers have not yet rid themselves of a conservative out-
look. (They are) lacking in principle and show a narrow departmental
approach, to the detriment of the interests of the state. This is not
to be tolerated.
River transport workers are told (3 June) that they have not yet made up for their short-
comings of last year when the annual plan was "underfulfilled" and that "unproductive idle
time of vessels is still considerable; frequently timetables are not Maintained and equip-
ment is sometimes inadequately used." They are accordingly reminded of their "duty to the
country" professed in the numerous letters to Stalin from the crews of the Volga-Kama and
northern basins. "Meanwhile," the editorial concludes, "the shortcomings are numerous."
The familiar low standard of Party-political work among the workers i blamed for the "poorly
developing" socialist competition, and the political departments on vessels are urged to
intensify their activities with a view to remedying the situation, that is, improving the
dietelplimet
... all Party organizations of the river transport are caliid upon
uncompromisingly to train the people to a proper sense of
responsibility for the work entrusted to them, and to raise them
to the struggle ,for the all-embracing tightening of working discipline.
That the performance of the railway transport is not much better thand on inland waterr,ys is
attested to by an IZVESTIA editorial (13 June) which complains that both freight and
passenger trains, having failed to comply with their tasks last year, I are still working
behind schedule. Freight cars are said to be "held up for far too long a time, standing idle
or waiting to be loaded or unloaded." These waiting periods apparently account for the loss
of freight which the papers call inadmissible, urging appropriate measures "to secure the
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preservation of freight and so on." The reference to passenger, trains is short but
indicative of the situation "passenger trains must be organized well and exactly..
Passengers must be served with attention and care."
Party activities..
PRAVDArs sharpest barbs are aimed at the Smolensk and Orel oblast Party committees ("Judge
Workers by the Results of Their Work", 4 June) for the familiar "serious shortcomings" in
their work with cadres and their "complacent attitude" toward the mistakes of the workers.
The Smolensk Party leadership is told that "the overlooking of mistakes and a liberal-minded
attitude to them only spoils workers and leads to fresh mistakes," and the Orel Party
committee is accused of complacency--a euphemism for patronage--toward "the serious mistakes
of certain workers," What sounds like the practice of passing out political plums (in the
Western sense) and maintaining a negative attitude toward women in public office is revealed
by PRAVDA's remark on promotions:
One of the major mistakes in the practice of Party committees in
the selection and training of cadres is that they rely entirely
on a close circle of workers, and are quite unjustifiably afraid
of bringing to the fore young cadres, especially women.
Propaganda, Party education and Communist ideology in general form the subject of three
PRAVDA editorials (9, 10 and 12 June) and of a KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA editorial of 9 June.
The claim that Party organizations are paying inadequate attention to the training and work
of propagandists is supported by the fact that "last year propaganda lectures delivered in
some oblasts were unconstructive and feeble in build-up." (9 June).
The poor training of young Communists (recent Komsomol graduates and now candidates for Party
membership) is deplored and is attributed to the fact that Party officials, whose duty it is
to prepare them for membership, treat them as a mass rather than individuals, and are little
concerned with their ability and performance:
Each one of them must be trained individually .... Too many of
these young Communists find themselves too long in "candidate"
ranks The candidate period, though essential ,.. should not
be prolonged. (10 June).
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA is less lenient with the fledgling Communists and pleads for less
arrogance on their part. It appears that not all the Komsomols are convinced of the
advantages of propaganda, that is persuasion, over Aifferent methods which might only mean
coercion:
There are still Komsomol workers who are Indifferent to the fate
of their comrades. A Komsomol worker who does not value people
is unworthy to be a leader of youth. Such people should be
reminded that the main method in Komsomol work is that of persuasion.
(9 June).
The compatibility of ideological purity with clashing opinions is treated in the PRAVDA
editorial of 12 June which cautions true Bolsheviks against ideological distortions, on the
one hand, and quotes Stalin as approving of divergent opinion in matters of science, on the
other. That science in the Soviet Union is not divorced from Communist doctrine and ideology
has been amply demonstrated during the recent purge of scientists for "cosmopolitism," agree-
ing with Western scientists--particularly on biology, or doubting the approved Michurin
theories. The editorial asserts that "lack of political outlook" is severely criticized by .
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Our Party teaches that ideological work ,..Imust aim first and
foremost ... toward the strengthening of Bolshevik immunity to all
kinds of ideological distortion
With particular force Comrade Stalin stressed that "no science can
develop and make progress without a clash of opinion, without
freedom of criticism."
Soviet writers, literary and art workers have not and cannot have
any other interests but 0.,, the interests of the State. This is
why a deviation from the truth of life, the slightest display of
lack of political outlook, the lack of ideaHcontent are
justifiably and severely criticized by the Soviet public.
Socialist competition,
Bureaucracy, or worse, in socialist competition is the object of editorial censure on
5 June. The reluctance of industrial officials to spionsor and maintain socialist
competition among the workers, individually and collectively, is revealed in the fact that
"some heads of undertakings, ministries and departments try to substitute the vital and
concrete leadership of competition by administration.' The Ministry of Communications is
rebuked for adopting "this obviously mistaken course,' and "faulty leadership" of competi-
tion is said to have become entrenched in a number of nines of the Voroshilov Coal Trust
in the Donets Basin. As a result of this, the editorial claims, ",_ the mines of the
Voroshilov Trust have under-delivered (this year) by tens of thousands of tons of coal."
An interesting allusion to the mechanics of making pledges in socialist competition is
contained in the reference to faulty leadershipt
It is precisely this which explains the fact that at several mines
the pledges made in the socialist competitiOn are completely unknown
to some of the workers.
The voluntary nature of socialist competition is inadvertently, and unequivocally, disproved
in a short news item from Baku, Azerbaijan (4 June) saying .that the Council of Ministers
and the Central Coamittee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party "decreed that a socialist
competition ... should be entered into by the stock-breeders of the Azerbaijan and Armenian
SSRs."
Agriculture.
Figure juggling by collective farm managers and lax control over the farms by local Party
organizations are deplored by the PRAVDA editorial of 7 June which says that "frequently
enough favorable average figures conceal from view tae farms that are lagging behind."
Obviously alluding to the collective farmers who devOte more of their attention and energy
to their individual land allotments than to the colleIctive farm, a recurrent charge on the
Soviet radio, the editorial warns thatt
Each farmer must be made to understand that the interests of the
state come above all else, that public property and economy and
collective labor form the basis of the collective farm system.
Another weak spot in Soviet agriculture, the machineetrector stations, is attacked by the
editorial of 14 June, with the Kursk and Voronezh ?blasts as the chief targets. The charge
against the Kursk oblast has to do with the familiar reluctance of the officials and/or
farmers to work their machinery to capacity, while thi agricultural engineers of Voronezh
oblast are blamed for low labor productivity:
In 1950 one quarter of the available tractors in the Kursk oblast
were allowed to remain idle. This year, a large number of tractors
are again idle, and the work in the fields is being delayed.
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In the Voronezh oblast, many of the rayon Party committees seldom
concern themselves with the work of the machine-tractor station.
The Party organizations ... do not exert sufficient influence on
the work of the agricultural engineers to see to the increase in
the productivity of labor ....
The chronic PRAVDA complaint about low labor productivity is dealt with more specifically
in the editorial of 13 June which inferentially, discloses the understandable reluctance of
the workers to step up their productivity and the necessity of prodding to greater efforts:
The correct use of these means of increasing the productivity
of labor must lead to the establishment of progressive technical
norms, a sliding-scale for the productivity of labor demanding
that the backward workers should be trained to approach the out-
put capacity of the moredadvanced workers .
The Interests of the State Above All.
PRAVDAts earlier reminder to Soviet officials that, despite all the references to the
"greatness" of the Soviet individual and the "new man" produced by the Soviet society, the
interests of the state remain paramount, is echoed by the RADYANSKA UKRAINA (SOVIET UXRAINE)
on 7 June.. This paper, moreover, goes somewhat further in its admonition to Ukraine
officials by discussing the negligent attitude toward the interests of the state in the
context of treason. Although the editorial argument is along the general line of "neglect
of the interests of the state," it leaves no doubt that resistance to mechanizatin of labor
is what matters most. Referring to the poor work done by the Voroshilovgrad oblast Coal
Mine Administration, the editorial quotes a letter received by the RADYANSKA UKRAINA saying
that:
... the director of the mine administration, Comrade Davydov,
does not cart at all about the utilization of the machines.
The machines are standing idle and the workers are working
with their hands.
The grave implication of such an "attitude" is further emphasized by placing it in the
category of anti-state activity which, in the Soviet view, is the nearest equivalent to
treason:
Davydov surrounded himself with cella which in collaboration
with some workers have begun anti-state machinations,
The Ministry of the Local Fuel Industry of the Ukrainian SSR
has good reasons to take a serious view of this practice .,.,
The Party organizations, ministries and their departments
must treat such practice with severity. (7 June)
The deliberate concealment of state property is no less serious than resistance to mechaniza-
tion and the same editorial points an accusing .finger in that direction also:
Some economic leaders erroneously think that any resources
in their stores, not entered in the lists of stocks, are
'their personal property.
Since the tames of the particular economic leaders are not mentioned, the presumption is that
there area number of them and that their erroneous thinking is more or less widespread.
Castigated also are the "deliberately high-sounding reports" which those economic leaders
send to the head administrations and ministries which, incidentally, are also said to be lax
in their duties for "not carefully checking the truth of the reports."
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Distribution of consumer goods.
The interests of Soviet consumers are normally far down the scale of priorities, but, accord-
ing to the same RADYANSKA UKRAINA (14 June), the Ukrainian consumers have been given an
exceptionally bad time by their food and cooperative industry. "Deterioration" in their
work is the blanket charge leveled against all the trade organizations, or retail outlets
(torguyusclaie organizatsii), of the Ukraine,I and the Ministry of Trade is told that it has
so far failed to do anything but "register these facts." Adversely mentioned is the
distribution of building materials, salt, matches and "other staple articles" which are not
to be found in many retail stores. The reasOn given for these shortcomings is the "very bad"
system of personnel recruitment, but the size of the area affected suggests that officials
higher than "recruited personnel" may have something to do with it
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6.. the trade organizations of theI Ukraine have deteriorated
in their work of late Trade ia especially bad in Kamenets-
Podolsk, Zaporozhie, Dnepropetrovsk and some other oblasts
The Ministry of Trade of the Ukrainian SSR certainly knows the
bad work of certain supply organizations.
RADYANSKA UKRAINA also calls attention to theI shortage of restaurants in "a number of towns,
among them Kiev," and wonders why the Main PUblic Catering Administration is opening inadequate
buffets instead of good restaurants. Here, again, the culprits remain unnamed but are
referred to as cheaters and swindlers
Apart from the fact that some trade organizations have a very
bad system of recruiting personnel there are cheaters and
swindlers in the shops and diatribilting centers
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KAZAKBSTANSKAYA PRAVDA lists a multitude of shortcomings in the Republic, particularly in
agriculture. Also criticized are slaw housing construction, poor Komsomol education, and
suppression of criticism. The hawing situation is said to be deplorable because "in the
Republia as a whole the state plan is not being fulfilled," (6 June) Curiously enough,
the local Party and soviet organizations, always held ex officio responsible for everything
wrong in their respective areas, are not blamed this time
A large part of the blame for this situation rests on the
Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industries which failed to provide '
the builders with approved drafts and designs. The Ministry
of Communal Economy, the Kazakh Oil Construction Industry
Trust (Kazneftstroyprom) ..,, are all carrying out their house-
building programs in an unsatisfactory manner.
The tenor of the editorial as a whole is co4aratively mild--no reference to "serious
shortcomings," "intolerable situation" or "anti-state activity"--which provides a.commentary
on the official attitude to the welfare of the workers. The guilty ministries are merely
told that their planning was inadequate, that ia that "blueprints and drafts are often
delivered late and are frequently inaccurate" Indeed, the only rebuke for their indifferent
attitude toward the people's welfare was the advice that "it is essential to raise the
feeling of,responeibility among the planning organizations ...."
Serious shortcomings in the work of Komsomol organizations is charged bi the KAZARBSTANSKAYA
PRAVDA of 7 June which blames them an poor education and guidance
... there is still roam for improvement in, the work of
educating youth which receives scant attention in certain
primary organizations of the Komaesiol.
Serious shortcomings in the work Of KOMBOM01 organizations
are explained by the fact that the level of guidance from
oblast and rayon committees is still lagging behind the
increasing demands.
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Fodder preparation, until recently the object of a nation-wide campaign, is still one of the
sore spots in Kazakh agriculture, according to two KAZAKHSTANSKAYA PRAVDA editorials (9 and
14 June). The familiar lack of supervision over the implementation of work is again held
responsible for the sorry state of affairs:
The Dzhambul oblast Party committee does not lay sufficient stress
on the ... implementation of resolutions .... The Dzhambul
ablest has fulfilled the plan for fodder preparation by only 2.6
percent. This is only one of many examples. (9 June).
Taking up the fodder theme again on 14 June, the paper says that it is the duty of all
Party, Soviet and agricultural organizations to look into the matter, and that duty was
apparently misunderstood by many: 'Many organizations of the Republic have failed to realize
this point and have not underatoud the full meaning of haymawing."
Shayeltmetov, secretary of the central committee of the Kazakh Communist Party, speaks of
"anti-state squandering of communal resources" and "the grossest infringement of financial
discipline" in the machine-tractor stations of the Republic without naming any specific
instances?an indication of widespread practice. "All branches of finance must be
examined," he says, because "a machine-tractor station cannot be run correctly without a
knowledge of finance and economics."
This official also calls attention to the deplorable situation among the Republic's
agronomist and mechanical personnel without, however, Venturing any explanation for it.
These qualified workers are said to be too few and inadequately edueated. Further, the
personnel turnover approaches eatastrophic proportions
... 2284 agronomists are required whereas only 1570 are avail-
able. Of these only 7 percent have higher education ... and
40.6 percent no special education but pranti al knowledge.
As for mechanics, 2785 are required and 2150 are available.
Of these, 2 percent have higher education .,. and the rest only
practical knowledge.
In 1949, 114 agronomists with higher educatiOn came to the
machine-tractor stations and stock-breeding farms, and 98 of
them left again ... 26 mechanics arrived, and 20 of them left.
(10 June)
The recurring charge that a number of Party organizations are antagonistic to criticism and
self-criticism is brought with renewed force against the Turkestan Rayon Party Committee
which is told that such practice smacks of bourgeois morality. That such self-criticism
applies not merely to present or past performance on the job but also to the elimination of
"capitalist thought"--which, may account for the reluctance to "self-criticise"--is admitted
at the very outset of the KAZABIESTANSKAYA PRAVDA editorial of 12 June
Criticism and self-criticism are the means by which the Party
struggles against the remains of capitalist thought and against
all shortcomings which hamper progress.
Criticizing one's self for poor work may bring about an official rebuke or, at worst, a
minor penalty. Capitalist thought, on the other hand, is a cardinal sin, even if divulged
by way of self-criticism. Hence, the popular aversion to self-criticism and the necessity
of constant official encouragement.
The Rostov and Voroshilovgrad ?blasts get most of the criticism for the idleness and
inefficiency of machine and man, and the rest of official censure, for a variety of short-
comings, is more or less equally distributed among Stavropol, Stalino, Orel, Erevan
(Armenian SSR), Odessa and Tashkent (Uzbek SSR)
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Rostov, MOLOT editorial, 2 June:
The heads of the (Bykov) coal trust and of the Party and economic
organs of many pits do not show Bolshevist care for the creation
of the necessary conditions This leads to a situation in
which many coal combine machines are idle and the efficiency of
machines in general is very low. Such a situation cannot be
tolerated.
MOLCT editorial, 8 June (discussing tla, Volga-Don project):
... the workers in sone sec ors are not making the utmost use
of their equipment and machinery.
The directors and specialists of the first and third building
sectors ... must elimintte the serious shortcomings in the
organization of labor and acCelerate excavation and concrete
work without delay.
MOLOT editorial, 10 June:
Unfortunately, there are still organizations and enterprises
in the oblast which maintain a bureaucratic end indifferent
attitude toward the suggestions and complaints of workers ....
Such a situation cannot beI eft unattended.
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VOROSHILOVGRADSKAYA PRAVDA editorial, 8 June
The oblast coal industry as a whole is still in debt to the
state ... in many mines the socialist competition among
workers has a formalistic character. In many mines as much as
40 percent of the coal-cutting machines are idle.
Sane paper discussing utilization of lOcal resources (13 June)t
Some administrators tend to get from the State as much raw
material as possible. They are forgetting that the local
industry and industrial cooperatives are destined to use
for their production industrial waste and agricultural raw
materials .... This tendency is a crime.
Same paper, 1 June:
In the Beikovo village, Sverdlovsk rayon, there was quite
a good movie establishment 00 this establishment is being
liquidated on the grounds that it is unprofitable.
STAVROPOLSKAYA PRAVDA, 13 Junet
Exceptionally alarming is the lag of most of the machine-
tractor stations in the fulfillment of the combine repairs.
Odessa, CHERNOMORSKAYA MAUNA editorial, 7 June:
The Pervomaisk garment enterprise of the oblast local
industry has gained notoriety for its lackadaisical attitude
toward production tasks ... more than half of the goods had
to be classified as second-rate and even third-rate quality.
The sleeves were sewn crookedly, there were uneven seams and
so on.
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Recently 150 pairs of men's shoes out of 180 pairs examined were
classified as low quality.
RADIO REFERENCES TO THE STATE AND ITS ORGANS
The early Bolshevik belief in the withering away of the State after Communism has been
established has never been overly stressed in Soviet doctrinal literature. It has never been
very clear whether the withering away process was to begin following the institution of
Communism in one country, tamely the Soviet Union, or throughout the world. But whatever
the early Russian CommuniSt may have believed or hoped, the status of the state, with all
that that implies, was made clear in the early 30's, shortly after Stalin became established
in the Kremlin. Stalin's .widely publicized view that Communism can be established in One
country had to be reconciled with the continued existence of the State under Communism even
though the two were incompatible from the doctrinal point of view. As in many other
instances of doctrinal manipulation under Stalin, the irreconcilables were reconciled:
official lip service is still paid to the idea of building Communism in one country and the
continued existence of the State, its armed forces and intelligence services is assured all
at the same time.
In one of the periodic anonymous talks to political school students (first year training)
(24 May), the State, that is the bourgeois State, is identified as a "political organization
of the dominant class for the suppression of the opposition ..."; for this purpose it Maintains
such instruments of power as the army, judiciary organs, police etc. The Soviet Socialist
State, on the other hand, is said to be "a state where the working people are in power,Ithat
is, the majority of the society." And it is necessary "for the purpose of carrying out, to
the last, the destruction of the exploiting capitalist system."
There are no references to the withering away of the State or to the time when the State
will become superfluous. Instead, the changing functions of the Soviet State are discussed
with increasing frequency.' Pursuing this theme, the above-mentioned lecturer has this to
say to his radio audience' Of future Communist leaderso
Instead of the function of suppression there emerged the function
of protecting sOcialist property from thieves and embezzlers of
national property.
The punitive function remained also in force in order to catch
and punish spies, saboteurs and murderers sent to our country
by the bourgeois states .... As to the punitive organs and the
intelligence service, they are not directed any more inside the
country, but outside--against external enemies.
The functions of the Soviet State and the part it is designed to play in Soviet society is
discussed at some length in another anonymous lecture to political school students (second-
year training) on 14 June:I
The Soviet State is the owner of all the more important and
decisive means if production in our country; it directs all
branches of national economy ... organizes the work of
industry, trans:Port, agriculture, banks, trading and communal
enterprises.
The implicit indispensability of the State is seen also in another of its primary functions
which is "to stand guard Over socialist public ownership ... (which is) a sacred and
inviolable?foundation of the Soviet system."
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The political school students are also told that the Soviet State will last at least as
long as capitalism does, and no inkling is given as to what may happen beyond that time:
The strengthening of our State is also necessary because the
Soviet people have to build up Communism when capitalism
still reigns in many countries of the world.
Apart from the inference that capitalism anywhere in the world 'is a hindrance to the building
up of Communism, there is also the implication of a possible clash between the two systems,
though in the familiar Soviet phraseology it is a case of attack and defense:
The Soviet people must always remember the danger of an
attack against the USSR by capitalist states, of the possibility
that the imperialists will make new attempts to reestablish
Capitalism in our country. As long as this danger exists, our
country must have a powerful army and navy, well organized puni-
tive organs and an intelligence service.
LINGUISTICS
The contrast between theory and practice concerning
quotations
Academician Alexandrov in a lecture for
students of dialectical and historical
materialism:
Comrade Stalin attacks the apologists
of the theOry that there is no harm in the
British and Americans forcibly imposing
their language in other countries ..,.
This would make it considerably easier for
the American imperialists to enslave the
European peoples. (Home Service, 6 June)
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linguistics is revealed in the following
In the Rumanian People's Republic more
than 7,000 classes have been organized
for the study of the Russian language
more than 100,000 persons are
studying. (Tess, D/S, 14 May)
From Apr. 28 to May 1, over 2,800
courses were organized all over the
country for the popularization of the
Russian language. (Bucharest, 4 June)
0.. the great interest of the working
people for the Russian language was
borne out by the sales figures of Russian
text books which reached 500,000 between
Sept. 1950 and now. (Minister Slechta,
chairman, Central Commission for popular
Russian language courses, 12 May)
The Hungarian workers are interested
in acquiring a knowledge of the Russian
language. A number of Russian-language
courses were organized for them. (Kiev
in Ukrainian, 16 May)
An editorial in FOR A LASTING PEACE, FOR A PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY compares the Russian
intelligentsia "in the years following the October Revolution" with the present intelligentsia
In the satellite countries, and refers to the two as analogous. Just what that analogy means
may be inferred from the fact that the pre-revoluticinary intelligentsia was completely
liquidated "in the years following the October Revolution." Although no such fate is held
to be in store for the Satellite intelligentsia, the editorial does not pretend to paint
a rosy future for them; they, like their counterparts of pre-revolutionary Russia, are to
be replaced with new intellectuals "devoted to the people and fit to promote the economic
and cultural life of the country."
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Claiming that "only a small part" of the intelligentsia was on the side of the people and
the revolutionary working clasu, the editorial asserts that the majority of them hastened
to embrace the people's cause following the "revolution" in the Balkan countries, but
that a considerable "passive" element still remains:
Another part of the intelligentsia works bard but is still
passive in the political and public field. Only a very
small part of the old intelligentsia is hostile to the
people's government. This part has always been and still
remains an agency of the enemy. (Moscow, Home Service,
3 June)
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