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By Brian Pearce
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KHRUSHCHEV told the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party that what he called the cult of Stalin’s personality had done grave damage to the Those who criticized this cult in its beginnings were therefore, one presumes, rendering a service to.the Soviet people, while those who tried to discourage such criticism were (at any rate objectively) ‘anti-Soviet’.
‘When comrades affected by social-democratic tittle-tattling ask the question: ‘“Isn’t Stalin being overpraised?” let them remember the role that Stalin played in this mighty transformation, and they will have their answer.’
Younger members of the Communist Party may be surprised to learn that the contributor of that great thought to the Communist Review for June 1935 was none other than John Ross Campbell, who now has the infernal cheek to accuse the Trotskyists of being anti-Soviet.
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