The daily worker., 1934-12-26
ID e d ic a t e d His L i f e
to Creation of a
New Society
By KNoRIN

ONE Of the best leaders of the
feminist Party, a brilliant mass
organizer, one of the most prom
inent collahorators of our great
Stain = Sergei Mironovitch Kirov
has fallen at the hands of vile mur-
derers The name of Kirov calls to
mind the whole history of the
struggle Of the working class for the
October Revolution and for the con-
struction of socialist society. Ille-
gality, Imprisonment, exile, work
again in the building up of the Boil
shevist Party; then organizing of
the October Revolution, civil war in
Astrakhan, zariczin, Baku. Then
the construction of Soviet Azerba-
jan, construction of Soviet Trans
caucasia, triumph over all opposi-
ton, first Fiye-Year Plan, building
up of Socialist Leningrad. This is
the life story of Kiroy, but it is also
the history of the BolsheVist Party.
The hard, difficult struggle against
the class enemy, against the Russian
and foreign bourgeoisie, trained
Kirov and placed him in the first
ranks of the Bolshevist Party, in
the first phalanx of the comrades
in arms of our great Stain. AS an
irreconcilable enemy of the least
deviations from Bolsheyism. Kirov
fought in Transcaucasia for the
feminist line of the Bolshevist Cen
tral Committee. The Party placed
him, as the best mass organizer, at
the head of the Leningrsd organi-
zation. He became a member of the
Political Bureau of the Central
Committee and its secretary.
Each of us must be imbued with
the firm discipline of the Party;
every member of the Party must
give the Party everything he pos
sesses, and everything that he re-
ceiYes in the way of training and
self-education must serve the cause
of the Party" declared Kirov two
months ago, at the Plenum of the
Leningrad District and Town Com
mittees of the G. P. S. u He was
filled with that spirit of Bolshevist
discipline which must serve as a
model to hundreds of thousands of
Bolsheviki. He was filled with the
greatest determination and JOY of
life.
IUHEN at the Seventeenth Party
" Congress of the G. P S. U. he
declared with enthusiasm that it
was "a JOY to live in these days
the foreign agents, the Russian
White Guardists and their hangers
on asked: How is it possible for a
worker to say that it is a JOY to live
at a time when thousands of prole-
tsrians are pining in prisons, when
death sentences are daily occur
rences2 However, Kiroy was fully
justified in declaring that it is q joy
to live in these days, for we live in
time when the old order is passing
into oblivion and in the whole world
a new order of society-the order of
the proletarian dictatorship = is
being born to the accompaniment
of the greatest birth pangs.
Kiroy was justified in saying that
today it is a Joy to live, for the past
is disappearing. and with it every
thing that for centuries oppressed
the peoples of the largest country
of the world. Kirev was able to say
that it is a JOY to live today, be-
cause he was creating with his own
hands new society, a new happy
life for the 16a,0ooaoo people Of the
Soviet country
This Joy of life was and is an eX-
preston of Bolshevist confidence In
Socialism.
Kirov was bound by the closest
ties to the broad toiling masses of
the Soviet Union. He embodied It's
flaming enthusiasm, its great belief