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Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 the Soviet man is respect for all nation- alities, no matter how small. He has particular regard for the men and wom- en of the nationalities which in the past experienced the most grievous exploita- tion and oppression. Not only is the thought of discrimination against a par- ticular people or nationality alien to the Soviet man, but the very idea of it is hateful to him. The idea of building communism has united the Soviet peoples into a harmo- nious family, with equality and mutual respect underlying the relations among them. This thought is beautifully ex- pressed in the appeal of the Uzbek peo- ple to the Uzbeks who were fighting in the Great Patriotic War: “Your nation is a child of the Soviet Union,” the appeal read. “The Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Azerbaijanian, Georgian, Armenian, Tajik, Turkmen, Kazakh and Kirghiz day and night dur- ing 25 years built together with you our big home, our country, our culture . . . Now, however, the German basmach (the basmachi were members of a coun- ter-revolutionary robber band operating in Central Asia during the first years of Soviet power) has broken into the home of your elder brother — the Rus- sian—and into the homes of your broth- ers — the Byelorussian and Ukrainian — bringing with him the brown plague, the gallows and whip, hunger and death. But the home of the Russian is your home too! . . . For the Soviet Un- ion is a harmonious family where each one has his own home, but where the yard and the economy are one and in- divisible.” The Soviet people have raised woman to new heights of moral purity. Woman. in socialist society has become an equal member of society, a permanent parti- cipant in and organizer of the building of communism. The glorious deeds of Soviet women patriots in the years of war and in the days of the huge post- war creative effort have demonstrated to the entire world that only socialism can bring women complete emancipa- tion from the moral and material fetters of the old dogmas. Communist morality requires the re- lations between people to be developed on the basis of comradely help, mutual respect, and lofty principles, which constitute the only lasting foundation for true comradeship. A cardinal re- quirement of communist morality is the development of criticism and _self-criti- cism. The Sovict man considers it his moral duty to listen to the voice of the masses, to pay close heed to public opin- ion, Criticism and self-criticism make one not only exacting of others but of oneself as well; they make one intoler- ant of remissness in work and establish between people relations rooted in prin- ciple. And this moral quality of the Soviet man is especially important and essential for a society that is cutting through new, unexplored paths Icading into the splendid communist future. Only by checking on every step to see what it has contributed to the pro- gress in the development of the new so- ciety is it possible to ensure the success of the great edifice in the making. That was already Lenin’s maxim 30 years ago, when he defined the moral fiber of the young generation of the builders of communism. Soviet men and women will unswervingly put into effect this great maxim which is their inspiration in their constructive labor. The Motive Forces of Soviet Society gtew strong and triumphed in the course of a furious class struggle waged by the working people against their ex- ploiters. After establishing its dictator- ship, the working class in alliance with the peasantry carried through the social- ist reconstruction of the country’s entire national economy and abolished the ex- ploiting classes, ensuring the victory of the socialist mode of production. The Sovict people have converted their formerly backward country into a mighty socialist state, first and foremost because they were led by the party of Lenin and Stalin, which is the inspirer and organizer of socialist construction. Under the leadership of the Commun- See society in the USSR arose, 596 ist Party the Soviet people have built up a socialist society, have forever abolished exploitation of man by man and have put an end to social and national op- Pression, thus preparing the ground for a prosperous and cultured life, Stalin, the great leader of the peoples, not only expounded theoretically the possibility and necessity ot building so- cialism in the USSR, but he indicated to the people the concrete means of achieving this aim. The paths thus marked out were socialist industrializa- tion of the country and collectivization of agriculture. Since the inauguration of the Stalin Five-Year Plans the country has chang- ed beyond recognition. In 1940 output of the USSR’s large-scale industry was already 12 times as great as in 1913. By 1940 thousands of new mills and fac- tories, immense enterprises equipped with the most up-to-date machinery, had been built and put into operation, and socialist industry had become the decis- ive force in the national economy of the USSR. In a very brief historical period, some 13 years, the Soviet Union had covered a road which it had taken the developed capitalist countries about 10 times as long to traverse. The socialist industrialization of the country was the key to the socialist re- making of agriculture, for as a result of the former the necessary base was created for supplying agriculture with USSR INFORMATION BULLETIN Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6