But it is precisely that which the Kremlin cannot and will not permit. Stalin formalized his personal power by announcing that decisions of the Politburo were being taken unanimously. On the principle of infallibility there rests the iron discipline of the Communist Party. In fact, the two concepts are mutually self-supporting. Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility.
Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.
And the two together go far to determine the behaviorism of the entire Soviet apparatus of power. This means that truth is not a constant but is actually created, for all intents and purposes, by the Soviet leaders themselves. It may vary from week to week, from month to month. It is only the most recent manifestation of the wisdom of those in whom the ultimate wisdom is supposed to reside, because they represent the logic of history. The accumulative effect of these factors is to give to the whole subordinate apparatus of Soviet power an unshakable stubbornness and steadfastness in its orientation.