There has never been, before or now, anywhere, a personality more hated and slandered by the world bourgeoisie and its mercenary spokespersons, than the Georgian Joseph V. Dzhugashvili (December 21, 1879 to March 5, 1953). He himself discarded his baptismal name to take the name Stalin, by which he will always be remembered in the history of the humanity.

Imperialist propaganda has made a myth of that name, that of an individual who personifies crime, evil in all its numerous manifestations. In a century in which the bourgeoisies of the countries fighting for the domination of markets unleashed two world wars and caused millions of people to die, as in the 20^th century, now it only remains to place all faults, some real and some imaginary, on the man called Stalin. Nobody names, of course, such a person as Harry Truman, who had atomic bombs dropped on the very populous Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus causing hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Or the cruel bombardment that Winston Churchill ordered carried out against the defenseless German city of Dresden despite its being inhabited then only by elderly people, children and disabled people.

There was a time, as many may remember, when for Yankee propaganda the personification of evil was represented by a German named Adolf Hitler, and in recent times that role has been assigned to political leaders such as Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Saddam Hussein of Iraq. At present, little by little, although on a smaller scale they are trying to do the same with our president Hugo Chavez. This is a technique that can be characterized as that of "St. George and the Dragon," in which the role of St. George corresponds to Yankee imperialism. It is the Anglo-Saxon mentality that needs to see in every adversary a bandit.

In reality the purpose of this permanent campaign against Stalin, which many people on the left echo blinded by a habitual anti-communism, is to discredit in the eyes of the peoples the very idea of socialism.

In present-day circumstances, when the world crisis of capitalism can no longer be concealed, and the socialist solution is the only feasible one, this campaign of slanders centered on the figure of Stalin means in practice to try to lead the world to a dead end. Therefore Washington’s servants try to present false versions of socialism – some real illusions created by the petty bourgeoisie– and a distorted historic version of the concrete experiences of socialist construction.

However, each day it becomes forcefully clearer that socialism is only possible in which the national peculiarities and the situations of the epoch in no way contradict the principles of scientific socialism of The Communist Manifesto stated by Marx and Engels. Just as Lenin and Stalin interpreted them in the foundation and development of the USSR.

It is helpful to bring to light here these significant words of Alexander Lukashenko, current president of the Republic of Byelorussia, speaking last September before the 60th General Assembly of the UN in New York: "... fifteen years have passed since the end of my country, the Soviet Union. This event has dramatically changed the world order. The Soviet Union, in spite of all the errors and betrayals of its leaders, was the source of hope and support for many States and peoples. The Soviet Union guaranteed equilibrium in the world..."

Stalin was without a doubt the main builder of the Soviet State, and "Stalinism" was the master plan which, in accordance with that epoch, made possible such a successful construction.