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sional agreements with them, built up
it's foreign commerce still further and
consolidated its international situa-
tion.
Thanks to the same policy the Sow
let Union was able internally to Sc
cure the state budget, to progress
with the development of industry and
the further development of agricul-
ture and at the same time to introduce
general increase of wages and to
speed up the standard of production,
to bring its production nearer to the
pre-war level and to secure an in
creasing role for the socialist ele-
ment in the whole peoples economy.
Thanks to the same policy the Sow
let power consolidated the alliance
between the workers and the peas
antry and secured the proletarian
leadership of this alliance; raised the
actual role and significance of the
co-operatives, drew together broad
sections of the technical and other in
tellectuals under the leadership of the
proletariat upon the basis of social
| list reconstruction, and consolidated
the unity of the peoples of the Soviet
Union.
WHILST recording these successes,
w the party congress recorded at
the same time the mistakes made in
connection with the provision of
| cereals and in connection with the
foreign commerce, mistakes which en-
dangered the stability of the currency
and which created a passive foreign.
trade balance, the activity of which
is a condition for further economic
growth.
The party congress approves of the
decisions passed by the central COM
mittee in November for correcting
these mistakes and instructs the CEN
trail committee to strengthen the lead
ership in the work of the peoples
compissariat of economy in order to
WeNnt such mistakes in the future.
w T present the party is beginning
to work under new International
and internal circumstance. The main
tenance and extension of The breath
ing space upon the field of foreign
politics has become a whole period
characterized by the so-called peace
ful existence of the Soviet Union side
by side with the capitalist countries
altho the contradictions between these
two camps have become not weaker
but stronger.
This breathing space brings with it
the possibility of internal reconstruc-
ton and in consequence of the eco
monte relations with foreign coun-
| tries, certain advantages which can be
used to speed up this work Of recon-
istruction. On the other hand, how
ever, in consequence Of rthe strength
ening connections between the Soviet
economy and world capitalism, the de-
pendence upon the latter is increased
and this conceals within it a series of
new dangers which must be drawn in
to consideration by the party in its
socialist struggle and in securing the
necessary economic independence of
the Soviet Union. A partial stabiliza-
ton of capitalism and a relative
Strengthening Of the political power
of the European bourgeoisie must be
recorded.
The role of the United States of
America has Increased enormously al
most to the extent Of its financial
world hegemony.
Further the gradual twilight of the
British empire as a world power is
setting in. The following facts must
also be recorded; the contradictions
between the victorious and defeated
states, the contradictions in the camp
of the victorious states themselves,
the contradictions between Europe
and America, the undermining of the
whole imperialist system on the part
of the awakening colonial and half
colonial peoples, whose movement
which in various places has taken on
the form of wars for national freedom,
has reached unparalleled and gigan-
tic dimensions, and finally, the growth
Of new forms in the European work
ing class movement, in close cbnnec-
ton with the proletariat of the Soviet
Union (the struggle for the. trade UNI
ion unity, the workers delegations to
the Soviet Union, etc.
THE comparative sterilization Of Eu-
l. rope and the "pacification' Of
Europe under the hegemony Of Anglo
American capital, called a whole sys-
tenn of economic and political blocs in
to life, the last Of which was the Lo-
carno conference and the guarantee
pact pointed against the Soviet I'm
ion. These blocs and agreements
which are covered by the allegedly
paciflst league OF nations and by the
/ false disarmament shouting of the
Second international, mean essential
ly nothing but new arrangement Of
forces for a new war. In answer 10
these blocs of the capitalist countries
under AnglorAmerican hegemony
which are accompanied with an alb
normal increase OF ornaments and
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