SPEECH AT A MEETING OF VOTERS OF
THE MOLOTOV ELECTORAL AREA, MOSCOW
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February 6, 1946
Comrades,
You and the voters you represent have nominated me
as a candidate to the Supreme Soviet, and the Election Com-
mission of the Molotov Electoral Area of Moscow has regis-
tered my candidacy. Permit me to express my deep grati-
tude for the confidence you have thereby accorded to the
Communist Party, for the confidence and honour you have
accorded me personally as a representative of the Parly.
(Loud applause. All rise.) I thank you for the kind words
}ou have said here about me and my work. (Applause.)
On my -part I wish to assure you and all the voters thai
I rtemember well what Comrade Stalin .said about a deputy's
prime duty: to have the great image of the .great Lenin al-
ways before him and to emulate Lenin in everything. (Prcr
longed applause.) To emulate Lenin means at the same time
to emulate the great Stalin, the continuer of Lenin's cause.
(Prolonged applause.) There can be no nobler task for a
deputy than to emulate Lenin and Stalin and to be really
worthy of this. Rest assured, comrades, that I have always
striven with all my heart for ffiids. (Applause.)
We are on the eve of new general elections. The entire
adult population of the country is taking part in these elec-
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