J. V. Stalin's Doctrine of the Socialist State by Andrey Vyshinsky

Author:Andrey Vyshinsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
Published: 1950-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

* J. V. Stalin, Problems of Leninism, pp. 590-91.

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist multinational state.

The indestructible moral and political unity of the peoples of the U.S.S.R. and their evergrowing mutual friendship are of decisive importance for the success of socialist construction in our country.

The unity of the peoples of the U.S.S.R. is the mainspring f the enduring welfare of the Soviet state. This state has opened wide the door of opportunity to the numerous peoples of our Homeland, enabling them to grow and develop. It has brought about a renascence of these peoples, has stirred them to create a new life, a new culture, a life of genuine prosperity and unadulterated happiness.

The successes achieved in the upbuilding of the Soviet socialist state have mainly been due to the Lenin-Stalin national policy consistently pursued by the Soviet government. This policy has led to an unheard-of economic and cultural upsurge in our national border regions, the republics of our non-Russian nationalities, which have made gigantic strides during the Stalin five-year plan periods and are living examples of the triumph of the great ideas of Socialism. It has strengthened the fraternal bonds between the national republics and between them and the Soviet Union as a whole and has transformed the U.S.S.R. into a state capable of enduring any ordeal, a state which has given actual proof on many an occasion, particularly in recent years, of its impregnability and of its political might, unparalleled through the world.

Our national policy strictly adheres to definite principles. It is grounded in the genuinely scientific principles of Marxism-Leninism developed further by Comrade Stalin who, together with Lenin and on the basis of these principles, ensured the organization and viability of the first multinational socialist state.

The form assumed by this fraternal unification of nations, by their political union, is that of a federation of Soviet republics based upon the principle of voluntary association and mutual trust among the peoples concerned. "The voluntary nature of the federation," Comrade Stalin says, "must be preserved without fail, for only such a federation can become a form of transition to that higher unity of the working people of all countries in a single world economy the need for which is becoming more and more tangible."*

* J. V. Stalin, Collected Works, Russ. ed., Vol. 5, p. 23.

Soviet federation has nothing in common with bourgeois federation. Bourgeois federations have been the outcome of force, oppression, national war. Hence national antagonism, inequality before the law, relegation of the weak to the rear, exploitation of the culturally and economically backward and feeble by the strong.

The Soviet federation is a voluntary union based on legal equality, on the fraternal community of interests of the working people, on the principle of mutual aid and of assistance to those who lag behind in their cultural and economic development. Hence the strengthening of the ties between its constituent nations, the increasing gravitation toward unity. "Soviet power is so constituted," said Comrade Stalin on December 26, 1922, in

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