Crimean (Yalta) Conference of 1945

The Crimean conference of the leaders of the three allied powers - the USSR, the USA and Great Britain - was held from February 4 to 11, 1945 during the powerful offensive of the Red Army and the active actions of the allied forces on the second front. At the same time, the offensive in the west was significantly inferior to the swift advance of Soviet troops in the east: on February 4, 1945, Soviet troops stood 60 km from Berlin, and Anglo-American divisions were 450–500 km away. This circumstance compelled the delegations of Great Britain and the United States to reckon with the interests of the Soviet Union and find compromise solutions.

The delegations of the Allied Powers were headed by: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Government) of the USSR Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill. At the conference of the "Big Three" military issues were discussed, but the main attention was paid to the problems of the post-war structure of the world.

The USSR strove for such a system of post-war Europe, which would completely exclude the possibility of new aggression from Germany and provide a favorable environment for economic, political and cultural cooperation of European countries.

A significant place was given to the question of attitudes toward Germany after its defeat and its future. There was no significant disagreement between the Allies regarding the administrative management of Germany. Before the conference, representatives of the three powers in the European Administrative Commission prepared draft agreements On the Occupation Zones of Germany and on the Management of Greater Berlin and On the Control Mechanism in Germany. After some changes related to the allocation of the zone of occupation for France, these projects formed the basis of the relevant documents on the post-war status of Germany. The allies agreed on the demilitarization of the country, on bringing war criminals to justice and eradicating fascism. The communiqué about the outcome of the conference said: "Only when Nazism and militarism are uprooted, there will be hope for a decent existence for the German people and a place for them in the community of nations."

A large place at the conference was occupied by the consideration of reparations. The question of compensation for military losses was raised at the conference by the Soviet delegation. Given that the conference was held on the ground destroyed by the Nazis, this issue did not cause much controversy. It was decided to establish a total amount of reparations in the amount of $ 20 billion. Half of this amount was due to the USSR, payments had to be made in kind: machinery, industrial equipment, vehicles. At the same time, the demilitarization of fascist Germany was envisaged. Specific measures for the denationalization and demilitarization of Germany were decided at the next conference in Potsdam.

The conference paid great attention to resolving the Polish question, which was discussed in two aspects: the borders of Poland and the composition of its government. When discussing this issue I.V. Stalin emphasized: "... the Soviet Union is interested in creating a powerful free and independent Poland." The Soviet delegation proposed to approve the border of Poland along the Curzon line in the east and along the Oder - West Neisse in the west. The issue of the eastern borders of Poland did not cause much disagreement at the conference, and the Soviet proposal was accepted by the heads of government of the three powers, i.e. Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, which became part of the USSR in 1939, remained Soviet. Regarding the western borders of Poland, representatives of the United States and England, under various pretexts, spoke out against the Soviet proposal. In the end, it was decided that Poland "... should receive a substantial increase in territory in the North and the West."

A heated political struggle unfolded at a conference on the composition of the Polish government. After a long debate, a compromise was reached: it envisaged the reorganization of the Provisional Government in Poland by including "... democratic figures from Poland itself and Poles from abroad." The United States and England have pledged to establish diplomatic relations with this new government. Having accepted this proposal, the Soviet side made a compromise, which ultimately proved to be advantageous for the Polish people, because the creation of the reorganized Provisional Government of National Unity led to the liquidation of the Polish émigré government.

On the question of Yugoslavia, the conference adopted a number of recommendations regarding the formation of the Provisional Joint Government from representatives of the National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia and the emigrant royal government in London, as well as the creation of the Provisional Parliament on the basis of the Anti-Fascist People's Liberation Yugoslavia.

At the conference, some Far Eastern issues were discussed. The Soviet government reaffirmed its promise to enter the war against Japanese aggressors two to three months after the end of the war in Eurone The political conditions for entering the war against Japan were also agreed upon, including the return of South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to the Soviet Union, as well as the preservation of the status quo of the Mongolian People's Republic.

Of major importance was the decision of the Crimean Conference on the establishment of a universal international organization for the maintenance of peace and security - the United Nations (UN) and its permanent body - the Security Council. An agreement was reached on which countries to invite to the founding conference of the UN. The conference participants agreed with the proposal of the USSR - Ukraine and Belarus were included in the UN Assembly as the most affected by the fascist occupation.

All the work of the Crimean Conference proceeded under the sign of the immeasurably increased international authority of the Soviet Union and its peace-loving policy.

V. Tishurov, Minsk



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VICTORY IN UNITED ACTION

Strike movement in France


The mass protest movement in France began with the appearance on the streets of November 17, 2018 of transport workers who opposed the increase in prices for gasoline (by 15%) and diesel fuel (by 23%). In France, public transport is underdeveloped and therefore private personal transport and commercial transportation are very important for ordinary citizens of France. (Today, the price of 1 liter of gasoline in France is about 112 rubles.)

     The protesters were in uniform - traveling yellow vests, so the movement was called the protest of the yellow vests. Before the mass street protests, the protest was formed on social networks, on the Internet ...

     Protests all this time took place on Saturdays. These actions are organized by the country's largest trade unions, including the General Confederation of Labor, with the support of the Yellow Vests movement. The strikers also receive material assistance from the “funds to protect the strikers” created by citizens. The initial mass demonstrations of “yellow vests” against the increase in automobile fuel prices and the “defeat” caused by the radical protesters on the Champs Elysees and vandalism against the symbol of France, the Arc de Triomphe, forced Macron to declare a six-month moratorium on raising the price of automobile fuel. Note that, having come to power, Macron first reduced the taxes on their big fortunes to the oligarchs. (Note that Emmanuel Macron, an investment banker, is one of the richest people in France.) At the same time, for the French living on minimal incomes, taxes increased - in particular, on gasoline. Therefore, the protesters, represented by their leaders, said that a six-month moratorium on rising gas prices is only minor concessions to the authorities and insufficient to improve the living standards of the working people. A € 100 salary increase at a high price level in France was also a mockery.

A List appeared (of 25 items in 4 sections) of the demands of the "yellow vests" to the French Government in order to overcome the socio-political crisis, namely:

I. Economics and labor.

1.Convocation of a popular meeting for tax reform. Legislative ban on taxes exceeding 25% of a citizen’s condition.

    Immediate increase of 40% of the minimum wage, pensions and living wage.
    Immediately create new jobs in the field of healthcare, education, public transport, law and order, etc., to ensure the proper functioning of all infrastructures.
    4. Immediately begin construction of 5 million units of affordable housing, thereby ensuring a reduction in rents, mortgages and job creation in the construction industry. Strictly punish city halls and regional administrations, leaving the homeless in the open.
    Reduce the size of banks and break up banking monopolies, thereby protecting the financial sector from crisis. To prohibit banks with investors to engage in exchange speculation. To prohibit “saving” illiquid banks by taxpayer money.
    6. To annul the internal (state) debt as a fiction. Such a debt does not exist, it has already been paid many times in a row.
    With popular support, rewrite the Constitution in the interests of the sovereignty of the people. To legitimize general referenda on a popular initiative.
    8. Prohibit lobbying and influence schemes. To prohibit persons with a criminal record for life holding elected office. Prohibit holding several concurrently elected posts.

II.Frexit (Brexit).

(Brexit - for –Britain,

Frexit for France)

    To leave the EU and regain our political, financial and economic sovereignty (such was the will of the people in the 2005 referendum). Resume the circulation of its own currency, exiting the Lisbon Treaty. Even this one measure will already save us 50 billion euros per year.
    10. Stop the practice of tax evasion. Return the 80 billion euros that the largest 40 companies owe to the state, which is in no hurry to claim them.
    Immediately stop further privatization and return to the state the already privatized property: airports, railways and motorways, parking lots ...
    12. Immediately remove radars and stop cameras from the road. They are useless in preventing traffic accidents and are nothing more than a veiled tax.
    The national education system is to exclude ideology from education and critically review destructive and discredited teaching methods.
    In the field of justice - increase the budget four times. Prescribe in law the maximum permitted waiting time for legal procedures. Simplify the judicial system. Make justice free and accessible.
    MEDIA. Break media monopolies, eradicate nepotism between the media and politicians. Make the media publicly available and guarantee diversity. Prohibit editorial propaganda. Stop media subsidies - 2 billion a year. Stop tax breaks for reporters.
    16. Guarantee civil liberties. To register in the Constitution a complete ban on government interference in education, health care and the institution of the family.

III. Environment and health.

17. The law obliges equipment manufacturers to extend the shelf life to at least 10 years.

Oblige them to have spare parts available.

    As soon as possible, prohibit the production and handling of plastic containers and other packaging that clogs the environment.
    Limit the impact of pharmaceutical companies on the healthcare system.

Hold a popular health care reform congress.

    Agriculture. Prohibit GMOs, pesticides suspected of developing cancer and endocrine system pathology. Prohibit the use of agricultural land without rotation of crops.
    21. To re-carry out the industrialization of the country, in order to abandon imports, as causing the greatest harm to the environment.
    Foreign policy.
    Quit NATO immediately. Legally prohibit the use of French troops in wars of aggression.
    Relations between France and Africa. Stop the policy of robbery, stop military and political interference. To give the money and property of dictators, acquired by dishonest means, to the people of Africa. Immediately return the French troops home.

Put an end to the CFA franc system (note - the colonial system obliges African countries to keep foreign exchange reserves "in the Central Bank of France and pay for this" pleasure "of France) a system that keeps Africa in poverty. Negotiate as equals with equals.

    To stop the flow of immigrants is a stream that we have neither the means to accept nor integrate, and which plunged our country into a deep crisis that endangers our survival.
    In foreign policy, exclusive respect for international law and signed agreements.

At the end of the List, note:

“Let these 25 measures not change our daily lives instantly. But even points 9 and 10 will bring 130 billion to the treasury. France is a country rich in courageous and hardworking people. We do not deserve to live in poverty. ”

     This List of requirements of the people of France to their Government for overcoming the socio-political crisis, is almost 100% (if we exclude, which specifically concerns France only) is identical to the requirements of the Russian (Soviet) people to the Russian government. Indeed, the socio-political and demographic situation (thanks to the liberals who are now in power) in our country is much worse than in France. (According to the Federal State Statistics Service, the population decline only in 2019 amounted to 260 thousand people - that is, the highest over the past 11 years. The influx of migrants does not compensate for this.)

       It seems that in preparing his appeal to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (January 15, 2020), President V.V. Putin kept this List before his eyes and on the basis of it formulated what was necessary and should be done for the people of Russia in the first place. After all, the requirements of the mendicant people to their rulers in European countries and in Russia are one and the same. And the reasons for the plight of the people in Europe and in Russia are also the same - political and material support (even more?) By the rulers of their oligarchy (so that they, oligarchs, God forbid, do not reduce their planned profits in case price fluctuations in the world market, i.e. full insurance of profits of the super-rich due to robbery and infringement of social rights and guarantees of the population)

     The only difference between Europe and us is that the foreign class of the super-rich has become such, to a greater extent due to their labors, and our oligarchs are sheer criminals who robbed and stripped naked the Soviet people during the Gorbachev "perestroika" that stole from the people the basis of welfare is public property. And in addition - those who destroyed our socialist Fatherland.

       The essence of V. Putin’s reform regarding resolving the issue of demography and, partially, finance, on his appeal to the Federal Assembly, is reflected in the article “The Debt Pit Will Grow”.

       I would also hope that the Russian president will finally abandon the moronic education system in the secondary school based on the Unified State Examination, following which Russia is completely losing its future generations.

       In other words, by preserving the USE system, the destruction of Russia as a state is programmed through the debilitation of young generations. (“Spread the youth and the nation destroyed.”) This is also facilitated by modern Russian culture, especially in the form of pop music, which has turned into a demonstration of characters of the House of Tolerance in the “House-2” pattern created by Ksyusha Sobchak.

       We, the AUCPB, welcome, of course, the displacement of a completely mediocre, failed everything and everyone, in its composition completely liberal Government of D. Medvedev. The only strange thing is that V.V.V., who went bankrupt as a leader, (his close friend in every respect) Putin warmed again on a bread post, beside himself. You can be horrified by thinking WHAT D. Medvedev can do with the liberal-cosmopolitan torture of the Russian defense industry and its scientific potential that suddenly breathed after 30 years of torture tsiala ...

     It follows from V. Putin’s Appeal to the Federal Assembly that the liberal structure of the economy remains, therefore, there is no need to wait for changes for the better ...

     After President Macron announced the introduction of the pension reform in 2019, the movement of yellow vests was transformed into a mass protest strike movement and took on a tough confrontation between the ruling authorities. Starting December 5, 2019, a series of mass strikes initiated by trade unions took place throughout France.

In December 2019, stocks became radical. Posters appeared demanding the resignation of President Macron, such as “Macron, Run! The people are coming! ” In other words, the demonstrators are demanding the resignation of Macron as president. In the crowds of protesters you can find the slogan "We are here, but Macron does not want to see us." The president continues to persevere in his decision on pension reform. In his New Year’s speech on TV, President Macron said:

“I will carry out reforms no matter what!”

       The vast majority of demonstrators are employees of the French National Railways Society (SNCF) and the Paris Autonomous Transport Authority (RATP). Recently, teachers of schools, lyceums and universities, and even students, as well as lawyers and even workers of the Paris Opera joined the protesters - everyone who believes that their situation with the introduction of new pension rules will worsen.

       If the cancellation of opera performances can be endured, it is difficult to endure the transport collapse resulting from the demonstrations: the metro and railways work half-heartedly, high-speed train flights are cut by a quarter, out of every five suburban trains, only two go on the line. In addition, unions with red flags replaced the yellow vest unions on the streets of cities. In the crowd of protesters you can see Cuban flags with a portrait of Che Guevara. French citizens do not express serious indignation against the inconvenience caused by transport, realizing that the protesters are fighting for their pension rights.

     From the very beginning, radicals (as previously mentioned) entered the ranks of the strikers - strong young people in black clothes and masks. They trash shops, set fire to parked cars, cripple sculptural and park symbols of France. Among the radicals there is a slogan - "Destroy the foundations of capitalism." The prefecture of the Paris Police issued a decree according to which "any gathering of people calling themselves" yellow vests "is prohibited on the Champs Elysees, in the sector of the National Assembly, in the Senate, at Notre Dame and at several points. The Louvre is currently closed.

       Vandalism and the seizure of state institutions necessitates the introduction of an emergency economic and social situation. Police use rubber bullets, tear gas, water guns, sonic grenades and other measures to disperse protesters. During the protests in 2019, according to available information, 11 people were killed, and 2.5 thousand people were wounded. About 1.8 thousand security personnel were injured. During the manifestations of the "yellow vests" material damage amounted to about 3 billion euros, in Paris alone - up to 4 million euros. Strikes take place regardless of the Christmas holidays. According to the largest French trade union, on January 9, 1.5 million people went on strike in more than 250 demonstrations across the country. (According to the French Ministry of the Interior, 800,000 people took part in the strike, including 65,000 in Paris, The Local). Protests swept the French provinces. Strikes took place in Rouen, Bordeaux, Marseille and Toulouse.

     Over 60 percent of the French people approve of the strike and consider it justified.

The strike of the "yellow vests" has been going on longer than the most violent protests of 2003 against the pension reform, which forced the government of Jean-Pierre Raffaren to retreat.

     Under the influence of the mass strike movement on Saturday, January 11, 2020, the government of Emmanuel Macron made the first concession, announcing the possibility of canceling (or postponing for a longer term) raising the retirement age. Then, gradual changes in pension legislation should begin in 2022 (and not in 2020) and end in 2027, with an increase in the age of retirement from 62 to 64 years. The French government is also discussing in the penultimate week of January that, given the combination of positive circumstances in the second reading of the law, the retirement age may not be raised. Is the government urgently looking for money to “finance new steps of social progress”? ...

       Our friends, the French Communists (with whom we have long-standing constant relations, publish the magazine - INTERVENTIONCOMMUNISTE) sent us a magazine and a special issue on the strike movement called "Communist Coordination", "Communist Solidarity" (RASSEMBLEMENTCOMMUNISTE.FR) with a leaflet in support of the strikers.

We give the text of the leaflet.

“AS IN BELGIUM, WE CAN AND WE SHOULD  WE WILL WIN!

         In Belgium, the government wanted to carry out the same reform. Only with a single call did the trade unions and left-wing political parties manage to mobilize the workers and force the government to retreat under our single slogan: there is no such reform! It was a clear message, created and implemented in unity, which brought victory.

In France, victory is near. The government shows the muscles, but their unity is already falling apart. We need to strengthen the strike movement and paralyze the economy. Capitalists think only of one thing - only of their wallets. The strike and demonstrations, the cessation of production - that’s how we make them cede.

     And, above all, we will not let ourselves be deceived. Our time is a time of illusions and deception for the separation of workers. Let's not let ourselves be trapped and, like our Belgian comrades, let's say NO TO THIS REFORM together! This is the only reasonable requirement if we want victory. And she is in our hands!

Pension is a right, not a lottery!

Unite everything in a single strike and a single demonstration against the Macron project! ”

       Mass protests of the "yellow vests" are already taking place not only in France, but also in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Greece, Israel. The reason is the growing demand of society for social justice with the widening inequality between the super-rich and the growing army of beggars. This request in a very aggravated form is in Russia ...

       Speeches by citizens of the Russian Federation against the pension reform of V. Putin are in every possible way suppressed by the authorities and are not widespread due to intimidation and attraction of opposing speakers to various kinds of administrative prosecutions (judging by the media).

       We, the AUCPB, support the economic struggle of the working people, but we stand for the complete destruction of the exploitation system, against the appropriation of other people's labor by the owners of the means of production. We advocate scrapping the entire system of exploitation of other people's labor.



       In his work “What is to be done?” V.I. Lenin showed that “distracting the working class from the general political struggle against tsarism and restricting its tasks to an economic struggle with the masters and the government, leaving the masters and the government intact, means dooming the workers to eternal slavery. The economic struggle of the workers with the owners and the government is a trade union struggle for the best conditions for selling labor to the capitalists, but the workers want to fight not only for the best conditions for selling labor to the capitalists, but also for the destruction of the capitalist system itself, which dooms them to the necessity of selling their labor capitalists and be exploited. ”

N.A. Andreeva

January 17, 2020



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The debt pit will grow

“Somewhere the president will have even more rights, but somewhere the parliament will have more rights. But the first and second chapters of the Constitution remained inviolable ”

(A. Makarkin, Deputy Chairperson, Center for Political Technologies, Professor, HSE)



On January 15, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a "message to the federal assembly." The first part of the “message” was devoted to social issues. In fact, the head of the Russian bourgeois state acknowledged the existence of a social crisis in the country, but disguised it in his words, calling it “demographic problems”.

In Russia, mortality exceeds birth rates, people cannot start and raise children because of poverty, but to admit these circumstances is tantamount to admitting the failure of their own policies, so it turned out to be easier to talk about the demographic crisis, silent about its causes. Although words were made about the significant inequality of Russians in comparison with Soviet times.

However, further proposals for the “solution” of demographic problems showed that President Putin and the government he formed intends to maintain a liberal economic course, only tinting it with social handouts to the population.

The main innovation of the social proposals made in the “message” was the indexation of “maternal capital” and its distribution to the first child in the family. What is “maternal capital”, by and large?

"Maternal capital" is difficult, almost impossible to legally cash out. For this reason, a significant part of families invests “matkapital” in “improving housing conditions,” that is, in mortgages, in paying off part of the debt on mortgage payments.

Thus, if we trace the path of budget money allocated to “matkapital”, it will be as follows: from the state budget, money — through a certificate for “matkapital” and registration of a mortgage — goes to commercial banks. Thus, the “matkapital” program is a program for transferring budget money to commercial banks.

But there are few budget funds. After all, “matkapitalom” can pay off only a smaller part of the mortgage. And most of the apartment you have to pay from your income to the family that got into the mortgage. Thus, “matkapital” not only transfers state money to banks, it also helps to bring families with children into debt mortgage bondage. Many people would not take an apartment on credit, on a mortgage, and for many years give part of their salary, but the likelihood of paying off part of this debt with a certificate on “matkapital” seduces and makes Russian families debtors.

If the authorities really cared about Russian families, they would give them apartments for free, and the money pledged to the “matkapital” would be given out in the form of salaries, allowances, etc. Then citizens would spend this money on the purchase of goods, which would multiply lead to an increase in industrial and agricultural production. But the authorities in Russia are not socialist or even “patriotically oriented,” their goal is to support “business sharks” from the banking sector. Therefore, government money is dissolved in commercial banks. And someone later acquires yachts, villas, castles and football teams abroad on them.

At the same time, apartments that people buy on mortgages in new buildings are of very low quality. The Internet is full of video recordings of cases where, somewhere, people cracked bricks from masonry with their hands - due to poor-quality work, the use of cheap cement, etc. Some experts believe that modern new buildings will begin to "crumble" in twenty years.

Well, the rest of the social promises in the "message" of the president were really very miserable handouts. How else to call the allowance at half the minimum wage (5.5 thousand rubles per child for the poorest families) or "hot meals" for younger students? Instead of paying normal salaries to people so that parents can feed their children well, it is proposed to nourish them with a "gang" of dubious products at prices set by dubious entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, today for many families, even such a “balance” will be a serious help in life - because of the poverty into which the Russian government plunged them with their policies.

Danila Sedoy


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A rally at the "Obelisk of Pyatigorsk Heroes" in Pyatigorsk

In the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Pyatigorsk for 155 days was under the occupation of Nazi Germany. The city of Pyatigorsk was liberated by the troops of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army from Nazi invaders on January 11, 1943 under the command of Major General Pyotr Mikhailovich Kozlov, Major General A.A. Filatov, Major General V.F. Sergatskov, lieutenant colonel N.E. Tereshkova.

     When the Nazi invaders retreated from the city, they destroyed a number of buildings and structures, several thousand civilians were killed, and about a thousand more were sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis. More than 12 thousand did not return from the front.

At the "Obelisk of Pyatigorsk Heroes" Pyatigorsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks held a solemn meeting in honor of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Pyatigorsk by the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army from Nazi Germany.

Before the meeting, played songs about I.V. Stalin, songs of Victory. Were displayed: “Standard of the AUCPB”, a red flag with a mirror image of the leaders of V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin, red flags with a hammer and sickle, banners: "I.V. Stalin ”,“ THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOLSHEVIKS”,“ Bolsheviks — Marshals of Victory ”,“ Portraits of 30 Heroes of the USSR — Pyatigorsk with the State Emblem of the USSR ”,“ Victory Parade ”.

Flowers were laid at the Obelisk of Heroes - Pyatigorsk, the newspaper Bolshevik Sickle and Hammer was distributed, and campaign work was carried out.

The rally opened with a performance of the Stalin State Anthem of the USSR.

Before the meeting, N. Degtyarenko spoke - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, made by George Landin, Lyudmila Kuzmenko and other comrades.

The rally statement was unanimously adopted.

The meeting closed with the performance of the Stalin State Anthem of the USSR.

A solemn meeting of the Pyatigorsk city party organization of the AUCPB took place, dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Pyatigorsk by the Red Army from Nazi invaders.

North Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the AUCPB.

Remembering Lenin

January 21, 2020

    On January 21, 1924, 96 years ago, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, an outstanding theoretician of Marxism, the leader of the working people of the whole world, creator and leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), the Communist Party of Bolsheviks of the revolutionary vanguard type, died in the Gorki of Leninsky on January 21, 1924. , organizer and leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, founder of the world's first multinational state of workers and peasants, the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat - the USSR. Bolsheviks in different cities honored the memory of the great revolutionary on this mournful date.


In the city of Pyatigorsk at the monument to Lenin, the Pyatigorsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks held a picket in memory of the 96th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Bolshevik Hammer and Sickle and Hammer newspapers were distributed, and propaganda work was ongoing. At the foot of the monument to V.I. Lenin were laid flowers.

Before the meeting, N. Degtyarenko spoke - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, delivered by Comrade L. Achkasova and other comrades.

Lenin is with us! He is with us forever!

He is in a tough fight ahead!

North Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the AUCPB

Who is the monument to Lenin in Chelyabinsk on the Revolution Square bothering?

Monument to Lenin in Chelyabinsk

Foreword

            “After Chelyabinsk spent 15 million rubles in 2019 on the incompetent repair of the Lenin monument on Revolution Square, many citizens asked themselves: is it not easier to demolish it?” - quote from the News-24 tape of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Komsomolskaya Pravda from 11/14 .2019 ... Earlier, on November 7, the day of the October Revolution, a proposal appeared in the Chelyabinsk segment of the Facebook social network to demolish or move the Lenin monument from the Revolution Square in the city of Chelyabinsk. The participants in the discussion, in the comments, in particular, suggested moving it to the territory of the Scarlet Field (a little-visited square in the center of Chelyabinsk) ...

       I invite the South Urals and all thinking and caring people to reflect on the issue of demolition (dismantling) of historical monuments. Why do modern authorities indulge those who believe that the Soviet period should be deleted from the heritage of our Motherland ?!

         Let's understand the concepts initially. Namely, what are the monuments for and what function do they have. Why some monuments should stand, others can not be a place on the territory of Russia. First of all, a monument (from the origin of the word “memory” itself) is a monument (usually some kind of structure), supporting the memory of citizens about something or about someone, related to historical events or personalities who have made their a contribution to the formation of the historical, cultural and heroic heritage of the Fatherland. So the Latin word monumentum means - "memory". Those. any sculpture, obelisk, memorial plaque or memorial complex that citizens living in the country identified or created (by the hands of the sculptor) as a monument so that future generations would see this and REMEMBER, is called a “MONUMENT”.

Further. In addition to the above, monuments are erected in crowded and visited places of settlements and are, among other things, also an element of the architectural ensemble in this place, being its integral part. But nevertheless, the main task of memorable sculptures is to convey to citizens, tourists, and, above all for the younger generation, the message of our ancestors about the great achievements and historical milestones of our state, which are fundamental in the formation, formation thereof, which express a patriotic and historical meaning the country in which we live. A fair amount of statues tells us about what kind of action should not be in principle (for example, the Khatyn memorial complex in Belarus), which contradicts human nature. Many of the existing monuments are not only historical, but also cultural heritage.

And now, in essence, the question of the demolition of the monument to Lenin V.I. on the Revolution Square in Chelyabinsk, which arose in someone’s inflamed brain. First historical background. November 5, 1957 on the Revolution Square in the city of Chelyabinsk, the laying of a monument to Lenin took place. A marble pylon was installed at the site of the future monument with the inscription: "A monument to the great founder of the Soviet state, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, will be erected on this site." Workers at the Monument Sculpture factory in Leningrad worked on the construction of the monument, which is very significant. It was opened on November 5, 1959. The opening was timed to the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. And two days later, the first Soviet national demonstration walked in front of the monument. Sculptors worked on the creation of the monument - they are also the authors of the project Lev Golovnitsky and Vitaliy Zaikov, as well as the architect Evgeny Alexandrov. The design of the monument passed a rigorous selection. Eighteen projects from Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk took part in the competition. But the fifteen-meter monument, ten of which was a stone pedestal and almost six - confidently forward bronze Vladimir Ilyich, was accepted for embodiment. It is worth noting that this project was not only one of the largest monuments to Vladimir Ilyich in history, but also the first in its present form. And the successfully implemented project of Chelyabinsk made it possible to accept this image of a monument to Lenin for execution already in other cities of the entire immense Soviet Union. Under the monument on a granite pedestal there is a symbolic inscription: “To V.I. Lenin from the workers of Chelyabinsk”. FROM WORKERS !!! Not from power, not from patrons, not from oligarchs! And from the working people !!! Like everything in the Soviet Union, from shoes to rockets, this monument was created for centuries and therefore has undergone serious repairs only three times in all time. In the early 70s, when it was decided to expand the stone platform of polished red granite around the monument, which, in fact, is rather a reconstruction, not a repair. In the early 2000s, after more than forty years of service and the construction of the Nikitinsky underground shopping complex in the mid-nineties, the construction of which literally tickled the soles of Vladimir Ilyich. Transformation of the cultural and historical center of a large cityYes, a private flea market, albeit an underground one, was not part of the plans of the Soviet state, and who knows, maybe this repair could have been avoided. There was another major repair in 2019, but, as it should be in the private capitalist Derzh-Kholbaysky worldview and, as a result of the announcement of the tender, where the one who cheaper to do the work wins, the repair was made with huge violations, which not only did not help the monument to become tidier, but also, on the contrary, made it worse. And now the monument again needs restoration in the amount not less than the initially declared at the tender, namely 15 million rubles. In this case, it is clear why it costs the authorities so much. The cause is capitalist profitable-minded thinking. But as the wise Russian proverb says, "Avaricious pays twice." The monument itself, as was said earlier, has been made for centuries, you only need to properly honor the memory of the people, taking care of its cultural heritage, whose Soviet page is an integral part of it. From 2001 to the present, the monument is included in the list of cultural heritage of Russia with the direct assistance of the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, at that time, Peter Ivanovich Sumin, who was a Soviet strong business executive and a native of the Chelyabinsk region. This was done after trying to "move" the monument to another part of the city.

For most Chelyabinsk citizens, the monument to Lenin is a symbol not only of the Soviet Union, which they perfectly remember and, most of which, of course, remember with warmth and tenderness, but also a symbol of the city itself. You say - “Revolution Square” - in the head a monument to Lenin, you say a monument to Lenin - the image of the “square” pops up in your head. One is inseparable from the other and this is understood not only by those residents who remember the Soviet GOST to taste, both literally and figuratively, but also by the younger generation.

Now back to the question, who benefits from deleting the great historical past of our state from our minds. Our history is inextricably linked with the USSR and its first leader Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin). What kind of holding mords want to destroy the monument ?! And these are those who, driving their "Mercedes" past the central square of Chelyabinsk, every time they see Lenin, startle and become covered with cold sweat. These are those who, for 30 years of endless theft and corruption of lawlessness, on the 7th of November, flee to church to atone for sins. These are those over whom the sword of retribution of the indignation of the indignation of those workers, their sons and grandchildren, with whose hands this monument was erected, inevitably begins to rise!

LET MEMORATE THE PEOPLE'S IMAGE OF THE SOVIET UNION THROUGH THE MONUMENTS BUILT BY OUR FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS FOR ITS DESCENTS - FOR US FOR ALL (and not for a handful of officials spending public money).

Orlov S.A., Bogdanov I.S.

P.S .: the next repair of the monument began exactly on November 5-6 of this year, emphasizing the hint by the authorities that there was no celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on the main square in front of the monument to V.I. Lenin will not and cannot be.

LENIN

January 21 - 96 years (1924), Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov) died - the leader and teacher of the world proletariat, the creator of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet state, the organizer of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the most brilliant of the geniuses of mankind.

- He was a man whose whole life and all thoughts were devoted to scientific research and the struggle for a better social order, the man who in the end received the greatest opportunity that the apostles of progress ever had - the opportunity to lead a huge, so far oppressed and backward state . I believe that Lenin’s wide, comprehensive and clear understanding of what is needed and what can be done with a huge country occupying one sixth of the world, a country which, as a result of tsarist tyranny, hundreds of years behind the economic and social standard of living and the scientific progress of modern her America and Europe - most attracted and will always attract the attention of the whole world. It was necessary not only to overthrow the old, despotic regime, but also to find among the people of this country people and means to create such a social system that would be fair and at the same time practically feasible. For, satisfying the urgent needs of the masses, it was necessary at the same time to overcome all the prejudices generated by tyranny, fears and religious superstitions that still weigh on people. It was even more difficult to make these people feel all the significance for themselves of what was required of them.

When I was in Russia in 1927 and 1928, I happened to see on the remote outskirts of the country, united by the spirit of Lenin, peasants and workers, men and women who reverently bowed or bared their heads in front of a bust of Lenin and, as I understand it, saw him (and , in my opinion, quite rightly) of his savior. Now there is a gigantic struggle between those who seek to enslave the masses, and those masses who no longer want to be slaves. They now know that the ruling classes want to live in luxury and idleness, that they want their children and the children of their children to live like that. The French Revolution, the American Civil War, and the Russian Revolution taught the masses a lot.

The Russian people, liberated by Lenin, will never allow to be turned into a slave again. He will fight, imbued with the spirit of Lenin. I have no doubt about the outcome of this struggle. Lenin, his Soviet state will triumph. Whatever the immediate outcome of this struggle, Lenin and his Russia, the humanity and justice that he contributed to governing the country, will ultimately prevail. For, although Lenin is no longer alive, the social system that he created and which his comrades-in-arms and successors have since led to current power and greatness will forever remain for future generations.

- I am especially grateful to the Soviet revolution for the first time that it sharply raised the question of the haves and have-nots on a global scale. The Soviet Union in 1917 began a great campaign in defense of the poor. This is the world significance and the triumph of Marxism. Using labor, agriculture, industry, natural wealth, technology, human knowledge, human power over nature, using all this for the benefit of all working people, in order to provide everyone with a prosperous and cultural life, is the lesson the Soviet revolution teaches the rest of humanity . I hope that I will live to see the day when I see the triumph of Marxism in all countries of the world.

Theodore Dreiser