from the People's Daily"article of Sept. 13th
",..0talin's merits and mistakes are matters of historical objective reality. A comparison of the two shows that his merits outweighed his faults... Therefore, when Stalin's errors are being correctly aspraised, criticized and overcome, it is necessary to safeguard Marxism-Leninism, which he defended and developed."
Among Stalin's errors was aconfusion between “contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and contradictions among the people... In the work led by r otalin of suppressing, the counter-revolution, many counter-revolutionaries were x duly punished, but ai the same time there were many innocent people who were wrongly convicted; and in 1937 and 1938 there occurred the error of enlarging the scope of.the suppression of counter-revolutionaries. In the matter of party and government organisation, he did not fully apply proletarian democratic centralism -.. In handling relations with fraternal parties and countries he made some mistakes, and&®" ad counsel..."
",..Long ago the Chinese communists had first-hand experience of some of his mistakes. '‘Left' and right opportunist lines emerged in the Chinese C.P, under the influence of certain mistakes of Stalin. In the late twenties, the thirties ¢ and the early and middle forties, the Chinese Marxist-Leninista represented by comrades Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi resisted the influence of Stalin's mis— takes; they gradually overcame the erroneous lines and finally led the Chinese revolution to victory.
"But since the wrong ideas were accepted and applied by certain Chinese comrades, we Chinese should bear the responsibility... Therefore our party criticised only itsowm erring comrades and never sut the blame on Stalin. The purpose of our criticism was to distinguish between right and wrong, learn the anpropriate lessons and advance the revolutionary cause. If erring comrades failed to correct mistakes, we waited until they were gradually avakened by their own practical experience, provided that they did not organise secret groups for clandestine. and disruptive activities. Our wethod wasthe proper method of inner—party eriticism and self-criticism... for doaling with contradictions among the people and not between the enemy and ourselves...
",»sKhruschov should remember that he himself was particularly active in supporting and carrying out the then prevailing policy for suppressing counterrevolutionaries. On June 6, 1937... Khruschov declared: Our party will mercilessly crush the band of traitors and betrayers, and wipe out all the Trotskyistright dregs... we shall totally annihilate’... enemies — to the last man — and & scatter their ashes to the winds...
"The frantic campign against Stalin... enabled the Trotakyites, who had lone been political corpses, to come to lifeagain and clamour for the 'rehabilitatio' of Trotsky. In November 1961, tue International Secretariat of the so-called #ourth International stated in a ‘letter to the 22nd Congress of the C.P.5.U...' that in 1957 Trotsky said a monument would be erected to the honour of the victims of Stalin. "To-day", it continued, "this prediction has come true, Hefore your | congress the firstsecretary of your party has promised the erection of this mon= ument." In this letterthe demand was made that the name of Trotsky be "engraved in letters of gold on the monument erected in honour of the victims of Stalin." The Trotskyitesmade no secret of their joy, declaring that the anti-Stalin campaign had “opened the door for Trotskyism" and would "greatly help the advance of Trotskyism and its organisation — the Fourth International"... "Mhrushchor can never succeed in removing the great image of Stalin from the minds of the soviet people and of the peoples ihroughout the world. He can utilise his priv— ileged position to revise Marxism-Leninism... but try as he may he can never suceeed in overthrowing Marxist-Leninisu, which Stalin defended ami which is defended by Marxist-Leninists throughout the world. Long live the great revolutionary teachings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin and Stalin!
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