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| Helen Blau |
Some contemporary politicians in the former republics of the Soviet Union ignore the fact of existence of Soviet People in the post-Soviet territory at present, justifying it by non-existence of the USSR, consider such a position very erroneous and therefore unacceptable.
Before giving reasons in support of my standpoint on this subject matter I would like the readers of NSC to get to know a short historical information as to what community is regarded as Soviet People.
SOVIET PEOPLE is a new historical, social and international community of people which appeared in the USSR as a result of social reorganization and bringing together of working classes and strata, of all nations and nationalities. Soviet People had a common territory, economy and culture which was socialist in content, a Union of State of the whole people and a common goal – building up of communism. Theoretical proposition about Soviet People as a new historical community was advanced at the 24th Congress of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union). (Materials of the XXIV Congress of the CPSU, 1971, page 76.)
The most important role in the formation of Soviet People belongs to the CPSU. Comprising in its tanks the most conscious part of friendly classes and groups, nations and nationalities, the CPSU expressed the vital interests of all Soviet People, cemented the community of Soviet People in all spheres of life.
The material and spiritual community of Soviet People reached all-round development under mature socialism. Strengthening of social uniformity of the Soviet society of its social and political unity, growing of the state of dictatorship of the proletariat into a State of the whole people, led to the ever greater strengthening of union and friendship among all the classes and social groups, among nations and nationalities of the USSR, the representatives of which acquired more and more ALL-SOVIET international traits.
The greatest result of the revolutionary reconstruction of society was the birth of a new spiritual and psychological character of SOVIET PEOPLE who, preserving their national features, mainly had international ones. A national community was in fundamental unity with a higher international community, and the representatives of any nation and nationality of the USSR regarded themselves first of all as SOVIET PEOPLE, as a new social and international community became an important form of further progress of developed socialism in the USSR.
And now dear friends, I will attempt to speak in favour of my vision of this subject matter.
I think that I ought to say right from the start that there is no denying that at present the Soviet Union does not exist any longer. It is a fact. And it follows that what we call Soviet People do not really have a common territory now, which they used to have, neither are they united through a common socialist system.
I must emphasize that the USSR as a Union Socialist State was disintegrated on the basis of the illegal decisions taken by the leaders of the three former republics of the USSR – the Russian Federation, Byelorussia and Ukraine – contrary to the actual results of the referendum on the matter of preservation of the Soviet Union when the majority of the population of the USSR voted for it.
A radical change came over the life of the people. But in itself the fact of disintegration of the Soviet Union does not presuppose inevitable disintegration of the SOVIET PEOPLE. I do not want to leave anyone in any doubt about the fact that living now in the independent bourgeois states what we call Soviet People are still united, however improbable it may sound.
SOVIET PEOPLE are still a multinational group of toilers from the cities and villages united by Marxist-Leninist ideology, by the Communist ideals of the working class and by the principles of internationalism. SOVIET PEOPLE are a community who consider that the only salvation for the states they are living in now is reunification of the union. In that way these people are also united now by a common goal – resurrection of the renewed Union of Sovereign States with a socialist system of the Soviet type. And as it was formerly, the most important role in the organization of joint efforts and actions of Soviet People towards ever stronger establishment of friendship and brotherhood among all the peoples of former USSR belongs to the Communist Parties – members of the UCP-CPSU (Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union).
The membership of these parties is traditionally multinational. These parties are mostly busy not with working out theoretical questions but are undertaking practical steps towards resurrection of the renewed Union of brotherly peoples. Through all legal and practical activities of these Communist Parties and some other public and political organizations and movements, the SOVIET PEOPLE give them mutual and moral support, maintain constant legal friendly relations and cooperation. Doesn't the establishment of the Byelorussian-Russian Union serve to prove well real existence of SOVIET PEOPLE and the beginning of resurrection of the renewed Union of States?
Taking account of all these historically characteristic features of SOVIET PEOPLE, which have still been preserved by this community, we come up with a general conclusion that the SOVIET PEOPLE do exist at present. And that is today's reality! And that is why I cannot go along with the suggestion to change the name of the forthcoming World Congress.
Moreover. I would consider it a great political blunder!
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