Evening star., 1961-07-30

ton IN ACCORDANCE with re-
quirements."
! The program, likely to be the
key to Soviet propaganda In
months ahead. took indirect
note of fantastically over
crowded apartment houses and
log-cabin shacks in the So
Wet Union by promising that
during the second half Df the
20-year period, leach family,
including young married faTni-
lies, will have well-equipped
apartments which embody the
hygienic and cultured way of
life. The homes of peasant
families of all types will mostly
be replaced with new modern
homes or, in cases where pos
sible. will be reconstructed.s
The program also made these
promises:
/. Present charges for health
services will be ANIMATED some
time during the 2O-year plan.
I 2. The working week win be
reduced to 81 or So hours.
Miners viii work . 30-hour,
5-day week.
3. Luncheons will be free in
factories. collective farms and
various other state enterprises.
b 4. Nurseries for children will
become free, as will uniforms
for school children.
I 5. Collective farmers will be-
come eligible for a pension.
6. The present overcrowded
homes for the aged will be I'M
proved by construction Of a
network of old folks homes for
all who want to enter"
The program came out in full
force for strengthening Soviet
armed forces.
1 1t urged all uniformed men,
plus those in the security
forces, to display vigilance and
constant readiness to fight for
their country.
1t said: The. party believes
it is necessary to support the
fighting might of the Soviet
state so that they can deliver
a decisive rebuff to any aggres-
sor. The armed forces must be
nightly, equipped with the most
modern thermo-nuclear and
atomic weapons.
"The party is educating all
Communists in the. spirit of
defending their homeland as
their first duty"
F.. The new program appears
completely nationalistic and in
that sense differs from Lenin's,
which was written when the
Soviet leaders were flushed with
their victory in the 1917 revolu-
ton and thought the world
triumph of communism was
imminent.
Turning to the matter of
elections, the program suggested
(that means ordered) that at
each election one-third of the
new legislative deputies should
be people who never served in
a government body before.
1t also said office holders
should be limited to three terms
generally of two years each
but this could be waived IN
special cases were some individ-
ual is especially useful and could
get IS per cent of the vote.
No one has ever been elected
to office in the Soviet Union
with less than 98 per cent of
the votes. So this provision
seemed to be a smoke screen to
imply that democratic pro-
cesses actually exist here.
On foreign affairs, the party
program said: THE victory of
socialism in the whole world
will forever abolish the social
and national reasons for any
wars.
TO abolish war, to establish
eternal peace on the globe
that is the historic mission of
communism.
THE peaceful co-existence of
socialist and capitalist states is
an objective necessary in the
development of human society.
A war cannot and should not
serve as means of solution of
international arguments.
I'm case the imperialist ag-
greSsors dare to unleash a new
World War, people will not any
longer tolerate the Capitalist
structure which involves them
in a disastrous war. They will
sweep and bury imperialism"
After promising pie in the
sky, for just about everybody