Opportunism in the Darkness of Lies

By Professor Herasymchuk

Prof. Vladimir Herasymchuk

Recent development in the political situation, both in our country and abroad, give us more and more evidence of the fact that LIES are the most essential and fundamental elements of the bourgeois propaganda. Very important and characteristic feature of its cunning and subtle approaches and performance consists of various uses it makes of a really big diversity of versions of alleged or pseudo-truths.

Opportunism and its rhetoric, that in reality has never had anything to do with the authentic theory and practice of Scientific Communism, present a very treacherous example in this respect. Quite logically, since they are really close relatives with bourgeois policies and propaganda as far as fundamental class principle and approaches are concerned - the opportunists rely and make use in their activities of the very same lies which the bourgeois pundits use. This is true both from the factorological, informational and methodological point of view.

Recently the bourgeois propaganda tends to resort more and more to the ideological phraseology and the ways and means of opportunism, especially in view of the growing influence of real Marxism-Leninism and the ideas of Socialism and Communism in the countries of what is known now to be "post-Soviet" political and economic space. This tendency becomes more and more vivid, especially in view of the continuous process of outright restoration of capitalism that is getting ever more acute and painful for dozens of millions of people.

Under these circumstances the falsehood of lies preached and practiced by such 100% serfs of capitalism and imperialism, like Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin in Russia and Krawchuk, Kuchma and Yushchenko in Ukraine, becomes more and more evident. This explains that alongside with them, there are quite a number of parties and political movements that are operating under demagogical slogans, making use of allegedly communist and also of socialist phraseology.

In fact, they have nothing to do with the ideas of Marxism-Leninism or the interests of the working class, on behalf of which they often make loud noises and proclamations and false allegations. Nowhere in their press, documents or practical activities can one ever find, for example, even a distant hint of principles or concepts, like the necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in political sphere, or the Dominant Position of Public Property over the Means of Production in the economy.

The presence or the absence of these concepts that shape the core of fundamentals of authentic Marxist-Leninist understanding of history and society, mark the real "watershed" between bourgeois, socialist and communist ideas and practices. The numerous and extremely noisy pseudo-communist, allegedly pro-working class and socialist parties and political movements that have recently been born and activated in the "post Soviet space", on the territory of former USSR, do not make this differentiation. In this way an essential point of their political and propaganda efforts consists in presenting the existing bourgeois society as socialist or eradicating whatever substantial differences between socialism and capitalism is at all.

And obviously an important part of this strategy of bringing about total confusion in the heads of the people on all aspects of key-importance of the economic, social and political development, obviously, they continue the ideological battles over the issue of the so-called "Personality Cult" of Stalin.

Perhaps the main point here is that the whole course of development in all of the former USSR countries, as well as elsewhere, both in Eastern Europe and world-wide after 1989, have very clearly manifested that, all political and ideological campaigns and activities started and carried out by Khrushchev, after the death of Stalin, have turned out to be not only revisionist, but clearly counter-revolutionary in their essence, immediate and aftermath. Under the present circumstances, the ruin of the statehood and the economy of the country, more and more people tend to remember and to reconsider the importance of Stalin’s efforts and policies that had transformed a backward Russia of illiterate peasants, into a really first rate, both economically and politically powerful and respected country of modern developed industry and agriculture.

This makers Khrushchev’s lies about Stalin’s "Personality Cult" evermore self-evident and, brings about massive irreversible processes of a new kind sincere respect for all that had been done by Stalin for the people and for the prosperity and world-wide respected international position of the Soviet Union.

In these new circumstances of "Stalin’s Personality Cult" debates, today’s opportunists and revisionists in the workers and communist movements, who are nothing but the followers of Krushchev and his political treason – are obviously adopting a new strategy.

Since these revisionists realize that it is no longer possible to negate, to conceal or even to question the greatness of what was accomplished by the Soviet people in the Stalin Era, they, though very unwillingly, gradually start to tend (or to pretend) to accept and acknowledge all of this.

So, today it is getting more and more widespread among the anti-Leninists and anti-Stalinists, anti-Marxists, anti-Socialist renegades of Khrushchev’s type, to adopt the position that they are even defending the name of Stalin, the heritage and the cause of the great leader Stalin. Beloved tricks that they use every time are of the type such as:" Yes, there was a Cult, but there was also the Personality as well."

As emotionally and didactically attractive and impressive such statements may seem to be, in reality they tend to conceal an essence that is basically wrong and untrue. It still contains and propagates the lie of the existence of the "Personality Cult" of Stalin, which is the basic lie of Khrushchev’s revisionism of Socialism.

As a matter of fact, the start of this lie can be easily traced even further, in their earlier statements, with writings and performances of Trotsky, Bukharin and other advocates of a matter-of-fact, the counterrevolutionary restoration of capitalism, whose plans and activities have fortunately have been thoroughly exposed, unmasked and cut short the course in the 1930’s of the previous century.

And now for us, it is even more vivid to understand that no victory over fascism could have ever been possible in 1940’s, unless that counterrevolutionary plot of the 1930’s had not been successfully destroyed.

Trying to reconsider the importance of the events and accomplishments of those days, in view of the numerous successful and unhappy developments during so many decades since then, we now have all the reasons to declare and also to underline, once and forever, that as a matter of fact, the alleged "Personality Cult" of Stalin has never existed at all!

Though sometimes it may seem that the notions like "Personality Cult" and "Respect for certain personality" may someway "overlap" or "coincide" in their content, they are actually totally incompatible and mutually exclusive of each other in immediate realities.

No statesman or leader can never deal with his responsibilities or execute his duties without a certain amount of respect for his personality and due authority. Obviously J.V. Stalin was such a kind of personality, while neither Khrushchev nor any of his successors and followers could ever rely on any substantial respect for them on the side of the people, no matter what efforts and measures they were taking or are taking to really install seemingly omnipotent cults of their own personality.

In relation to this, George Kruchkov, one of the ideologists of the present Communist Party of Ukraine, is perfectly correct to underline that the very notion of a Personality Cult "is absolutely alien to the very essence of Marxism- Leninism or of Socialism, both as theoretical heritage and immediate practices of the reality democratic principles on which a true Communist Party is built and is to function."

At the same time it is strange and a great pity that this same author still accuses J.V. Stalin of the cult of personality, while he misses even to mention the number of other cases when people, who obviously had neither the moral or practical merits or skills to be successful and respected leaders, were taking really great pains to build up their own Cult of their petty personality.

This strange inconsistency and lack of real logic can be traced in Kruchkov’s judgment about the development of the Soviet Union, which could be rightfully called the "Era of Stalin".

On the one hand, he acknowledges all of the successes of the Soviet people and of the CPSU in the process of the accelerated build-up of socialism in the originally backward Russia. He also underlines the decisive positive role of Stalin as a leader that had enabled the country to successfully cope with all of the problems, both with socialist construction and the heroic defense and victory in the years of the Great Patriotic War. He also analyzes the complexities that the Soviet Union faced in the international arena, as the only Socialist state before WWII, during WWII and after the war.

It is at least curious to note that he admits the successes, before, during and after the war, as a universally accepted fact that Stalin was a respected leader – but this is said on the repeated background of the alleged existence of the "Personality Cult" of Stalin.

But in all of his articles in the newspaper "Communist" in Ukraine, he always calls that Stalin promoted "repressive policies", that had brought about "extremely immense damage and harm to the cause of Socialism that prove really hared to compensate in any way."

We can only guess then on the basis of what logic this author comes to the conclusion, even though he says that Stalin had an "acute and originally gifted mind" and a "high level of really diverse knowledge and information which he used to make crucial decisions", etc. etc

Charging Stalin with the Cult of Personality, while at the same time he wrote: "Stalin was really a high ranking publicist who made a brilliant contribution and wide popularization of Leninism and his work has no match to its brilliance." This was followed up by "Stalin was really unsurpassable in formulating and successfully carrying out both the strategy and the tactics of the struggle in building up and consolidating Socialism!"

How could such a brilliant mind and tactician of Socialism bring about the "extremely immense damage and harem to the cause of Socialism", about which Kruchkov was writing?

These tactics and methodology of lies that are used by the modern opportunists have in fact many things in common with the famous formula of German Nazi Dr. Goebels, that a continuously repeated lie tends, in the long run, to be more and more accepted as a kind of truth.

What is repeatedly done now by the modern revisionists is the obligatory introduction and repetition of certain already well-known and publicized propaganda theses that contain, as a matter of fact, the real core and important essence of the whole ideological undertaking.

So, the recent opportunistic writings about Stalin and his times, usually start almost with a "Hosanna" to the Great Leader. Obviously readers are expected to accept writers like Luchkov and his likes, like the true and sincere followers of his ideals and admirers of what he managed to do. On the basis of these favorable comments at the very beginning, however, later on, these familiar speculations of "Stalin’s repressive policies" and "Personality Cult of the Leader that is alien and has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism", and so on and so forth, appear over and over again.

In this way, these "modern opportunist" writers about Stalin and his time, actually do nothing else but simply repeat both the false logic and the alleged "argumentation" to which resorted Khrushchev and his "secret" presentation to the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

To sum up this article, really Great Leaders like Lenin and Stalin actually DO NOT EVER NEED ANYBODY’S SPECIAL DEFENCE OR ADVOCACY! What they did is big enough and significant enough to speak for itself. These modern revisionists cannot contemplate, nor have the right to evaluate at al, either their words or deeds, of those real Titans of Human History!

Lenin and Stalin were there to elaborate and implement both the methodology and the tactics of success and victory of the class struggle and the building up of the Socialist and Communist Society in the immediate conditions of life that existed at that time.

Stalin followed Lenin‘s Testament and successfully worked for its realization for several decades after Lenin passed away. What was done at that time gave the working people all reasons to rightfully consider that Stalin was the most distinguished person of the Millennium.

It is easily understandable then why all of the period after Stalin’s suspicious death in March of 1953 is traced with so many disoriented, and wondering in search of a really due course, both of the cause, of policy and of ideals.

Apparently, personalities of Stalin’s talent, devotion and ability do not appear so often in our Human History. What these personalities have accomplished and left behind them, however, hardly tend to disappear or diminish even with their physical death.

All of this proved to be especially true of J.V. Stalin. Contrary to the vile propaganda against Stalin, thinking that this would diminish his historical contribution to Socialism and the defeat of Nazi Germany, the sincere respect for him, grew up even stronger among the working people, even after these political and ideological dwarfs postulated the criminal removal of his sarcophagus from his due place, next to Lenin in Lenin’s Mausoleum – besides the man whose cause and ideas he inherited and carried on so triumphantly in the course of so many really very turbulent decades.

Practically nothing can change the orbit of the Earth on which we all live around the Sum. In a very similar way, no one and nothing can prove successful enough to erase the name of Stalin from the memory of hundreds of millions of people, both throughout the land of the USSR and world-wide.

The name and this personality of the Great Leader and creator of the really New World are immortal and will live throughout the times to come!

And of course, no one will ever remember all those petty opportunistic serfs of the Yellow Satan (of Gold and Money) whose fate will no doubt be total oblivion in the abyss of all human contempt, scorn and disdain.