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concentration of material resources and of the will and energy
of the masses in the fight for the five-year plan, it is Comrade
Stalin who leads the army of fighters for Socialism, conducting
them with resolution, calm and deliberation up to a clear-cut
issue. And/* Khataevitch added, "the workers in the Ukraine
have had special occasion during the past year to appreciate
these qualities of Stalin's. . . ."
The words of these Congress delegates really say all there is
to be said about the part played by this sinister man, whom
no human emotion can deter from a resolution once taken.
In view of the ten million dead lying in the common graves of
the Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia, and
of the successful overcoming of all these "difficulties," Com-
munism has every reason to see in Stalin the saviour of the
Soviet system from a collapse which^ but for him, would have
been inevitable.
It would be quite another matter if Stalin and his unique
experiment were to be judged from the standpoint of the Russian
population and the country's industry in general. In such a
case the victory of 1933 would have to be judged very dif-
ferently. But Stalin has another aim besides uncompromising
communization of Russia—the Bolshevization of the rest of the
world. Stalin has clearly recognized, and recently stated, that a
Communist Russia in a bourgeois world would in the long run
be an impossibility. One cannot but thoroughly agree with this
view, and recognize that Stalin steadily pursues this second aim,
too, if only for tie reason that, in Stalin's view. Communism
has not yet thoroughly established itself in the Soviet Union.
A leading article in Pravda of January 30, I934> quotes
Stalin as saying: "Can it be claimed that we have eliminated
every trace of capitalism from our economic system? No, it
cannot be claimed. Still less can it be asserted that all remnants
of capitalism have been eradicated from our mentality. And
this is so because people's understanding develops slowly as
compared with economic development, and also because tbe