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Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Malayan Monitor plugs Stalin

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 17, 11 November 1963 · p. 7 of the scan · 298 words

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The Halayan Monitor, published in London and generally considered to put the views of the underground Malayan Communist Party, in its October 31 issue carried a special article cor iorating the anniversary of the October rovo lution. This journal has over Past year or so supported the Chinese line and this article was no exception, In fact the conclusion of the article contains a savage attack on Khrushchov. However, of grvat interest is the extent to which Stalin is extolled; in a section entitled "Stalin, the great — Marxist-Leninist and leader" it sayss

“,eceestfter Lonin's death, Stalin, close comrade-in-arms of Lenin, led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the government of tha U.S5.5.R. mid the Soviet poople for nearly threa decades in the most difficult task of t- (1) reorganising and re-constructing the country from the chaos and ruins left by the civil war and by the foreign intorvontionists; (2) launching a series of breath-takingly magnifiamt 5-year plans for the building of Secialism, which included the development of a powerful, first rate modern armed sorvice of the proletariat, a modern industry (heavy, medium and light) and modern agriculture, and many~sided technological and educational facilities for further progross; (3) preparing and leading the Soviet nation in its titanic and victorious struggle against the armed Fascist hordes; (4) leading the Soviet nation in repoiring the ravages of the Fascist invasion and, at the same time, guiding the nation in the post-war Socialist advance in a manner that not only spanned the vaste chaem of retardation caused by the Fascist ravages, but brought the Soviet Union into the now threshold of technology - nuclear technology includod‘ - of the mest advanced type.

A lesser giant would have wilted at the very thought of such under— takinys and such responsibilities. .c.ccccs

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