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Before the funeral, Comrades Budyonny, Shchadenko, and Kivgella consulted with me about the funeral arrangements, specifically on the following question: "Many Cavalry soldiers," said Semyon Mikhailovich, "have expressed a desire for priests to attend the funeral. What should we do? Perhaps we should agree to this?" After some thought, I said that we could take this step. After consulting with Comrade Sergushev, we gave the provincial party committee's consent. And here we stand on one side of the mass grave - all representatives of the party, Soviet organizations, workers and communists and the command of the cavalry corps, the Red Army soldiers and political workers, and on the other side of the mass grave stand priests and deacons. We deliver our Bolshevik funeral speeches, including Kaganovich and Budyonny, and the priests and deacons perform their religious rites and prayers. I confess, for the first time in my life, and probably not only me, I had to participate in such a combination. Later, we were reported that this evoked a very positive response among the Cavalry Army soldiers. "Look," many said, "the Communist-Bolshevik Party is doing as Lenin tells them: since there were believers among the dead, it means they must be honored in a religious manner. The Voronezh Bolsheviks and our command did just that. This means that all those whisperers are lying about the Communists forcing people to be atheists." Agitation against God and religion is one thing, but in life, let everyone understand it as they wish. No one is forcibly imposing anything, and priests are not arrested; they were even buried together." In short, this fact alone was one of the revealing aspects of the enemy's provocations.

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7) The Provincial Committee hereby informs representatives of the Orthodox and religious cult that it is permitted to conduct religious services with the ringing of bells in a completely free manner.
8) All of the above must be strictly and consistently implemented and enforced. Violations or failures to comply will be punished under martial law.
Chairman L.M. Kaganovich. Secretary P. Bulargin.”

I must note that there was some debate regarding point 7 (regarding religious services, especially with bell ringing); some comrades objected, or at least had doubts. Noya and Comrade Sergushev argued with the comrades that it was necessary to counter the counterrevolutionary propaganda that had unfolded, claiming that the Bolsheviks were planning to close all churches, confiscate and melt down bells, arrest and shoot the clergy, and so on. With this point in the order of the Provincial Military Revolutionary Committee, we dealt a blow to counterrevolutionary propaganda and strengthened our position among the wavering elements of the workers. After our clarifications, the Provincial Committee unanimously adopted this point.

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The meeting was in the garden, so it turned out that during the second half of my report, the gathering began to gradually disperse; that is, some began to slowly get up and leave. Naturally, I was perplexed, not understanding what was going on. The meeting leaders were also very confused, and they sheepishly told me, "The thing is, the sun was just setting, and some of the believers went to pray to Allah, after which they'll return immediately, but we'll give them a proper talk." I calmed them down, suggested calling a break, and during the break I told them how Lenin had instructed us to take into account even prejudices, including religious ones, overcoming them not by command and coercion, but by deep, long-term ideological propaganda work among the masses, especially among those communists and their sympathizers who still retained the threads that connect faith in Allah with faith in communist ideas.

Kaganovich L.M. Memorial Notes
#^https://archive.org/details/kaganovich-l-m-memorial-notes
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kuchinster @[email protected] · 2025-11-25 · 11:36 UTC

Speech by Joseph Stalin on the draft constitution, November 25, 1936. Extraordinary VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets of the USSR

The constitutions of bourgeois countries are usually based on the belief in the immutability of the capitalist system. The main foundation of these constitutions is the principles of capitalism, its basic pillars: private ownership of land, forests, factories, plants, and other means of production; the exploitation of man by man and the existence of exploiters and exploited; the insecurity of the working majority at one end of society and the luxury of the non-working but secure minority at the other end; and so on and so forth. They are based on these and similar foundations of capitalism. They reflect them and enshrine them in law.

In contrast, the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is based on the fact of the elimination of the capitalist system, on the fact of the victory of the socialist system in the USSR. The main basis of the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is the principles of socialism, its fundamental foundations, already won and implemented: socialist ownership of land, forests, factories, plants, and other means of production; the elimination of exploitation and exploitative classes; the elimination of poverty for the majority and luxury for the minority; the elimination of unemployment; labor as the duty and honor of every able-bodied citizen according to the formula: “those who do not work shall not eat.” The right to work, that is, the right of every citizen to a guaranteed job; the right to rest; the right to education; etc. The draft of the new Constitution is based on these and similar foundations of socialism. It reflects them and enshrines them in law.

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Bourgeois constitutions tacitly proceed from the premise that nations and races cannot be equal, that there are nations with full rights and nations with limited rights, and that, in addition, there is a third category of nations or races, for example, in the colonies, which have even fewer rights than nations with limited rights. This means that all these constitutions are essentially nationalistic, that is, constitutions of dominant nations.

In contrast to these constitutions, the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is, on the contrary, deeply internationalist. It proceeds from the assumption that all nations and races are equal. It proceeds from the assumption that differences in skin color or language, cultural level or level of state development, as well as any other differences between nations and races, cannot serve as a basis for justifying national inequality. It proceeds from the assumption that all nations and races, regardless of their past and present situation, regardless of their strength and weakness, should enjoy equal rights in all spheres of economic, social, political, and cultural life of society.

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The distinctive feature of the draft of the new USSR Constitution is that it is free from such reservations and restrictions. For it, there are no active or passive citizens; for it, all citizens are active. It does not recognize any difference in rights between men and women, “sedentary” and “non-sedentary” persons, the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the uneducated. For it, all citizens are equal in their rights. It is not property status, national origin, gender, or official position, but the personal abilities and personal labor of each citizen that determine his or her position in society.

Finally, there is one more feature of the draft new Constitution. Bourgeois constitutions usually limit themselves to establishing the rights of citizens, without concern for the conditions for exercising these rights, the possibility of exercising them, or the means of exercising them. They talk about the equality of citizens, but forget that there can be no real equality between the master and the worker, between the landowner and the peasant, if the former have wealth and political weight in society, and the latter are deprived of both, if the former are exploiters and the latter are exploited. Or again: they talk about freedom of speech, assembly, and the press, but they forget that all these freedoms can become empty words for the working class if it is deprived of the opportunity to have at its disposal suitable premises for meetings, good printing houses, a sufficient quantity of printing paper, etc.

The distinctive feature of the new Constitution is that it does not limit itself to establishing the formal rights of citizens, but shifts the focus to the question of guarantees for these rights and the means of exercising them. It does not simply proclaim the equality of citizens' rights, but also ensures that the elimination of exploitation and the liberation of citizens from all forms of exploitation are enshrined in law. It does not simply proclaim the right to work, but also ensures its legislative consolidation by establishing the absence of crises in Soviet society and the elimination of unemployment. It does not simply proclaim democratic freedoms, but also ensures them by law with known material resources. It is therefore clear that the democracy of the new draft Constitution is not “ordinary” and “generally accepted” democracy in general, but socialist democracy.

These are the main features of the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR.

This is how the draft of the new Constitution reflects the shifts and changes in the economic and socio-political life of the USSR that took place between 1924 and 1936.

"Pravda" newspaper. November 26, 1936

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kuchinster @[email protected] · 2025-10-10 · 07:42 UTC

Soviet Ukrainization

In 1920, the Bolsheviks of the Ukrainian SSR began Ukrainization at the republican level.

On May 4, 1920, the People's Commissariat of Education of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the training of education workers with compulsory Ukrainian language instruction.”

On September 21, 1920, the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopted a resolution providing for the compulsory study of the Ukrainian language in all “educational institutions with Ukrainian as the language of instruction” and obliging the State Publishing House to "take care of the publication... a sufficient number of textbooks in the Ukrainian language, as well as fiction and all other publications,“ popular and propaganda literature. Executive committees were instructed to publish ”at least one Ukrainian newspaper" in each provincial city. Evening schools were to be established in all provincial and district cities to teach the Ukrainian language to Soviet officials.

On October 21, 1920, the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR issued a decree on the introduction of the Ukrainian language in all “educational institutions with a non-Ukrainian language of instruction.”

On May 30, 1921, the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language was established on the basis of the Spelling and Terminology Commission at the Historical and Philological Department of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Terminology Commission of the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kyiv. Nevertheless, in 1920–1922, the number of newspapers published in Ukrainian decreased. In 1920, there were 87 Ukrainian newspapers, and in 1922, only 30[16]. During the same period, the number of Russian-language newspapers also decreased (although they still predominated) — from 266 to 102.

From 1923 onwards, Ukrainization received support from the Soviet authorities. In April 1923, the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) declared Ukrainization to be the party's official policy on the national question. In July–August 1923, two resolutions were issued in the Ukrainian SSR, one of which stipulated that new entrants to the civil service must learn Ukrainian within six months, and those already in the civil service within one year.

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The policy of Ukrainization of personnel yielded results. In 1926, Ukrainians made up 54% of civil servants in the Ukrainian SSR. The Ukrainization of the party proceeded even more rapidly. In 1920, Ukrainians made up 20.1% of communists, in 1925 already 52.0%, and in 1933 — 60.0%.

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The Ukrainization of the press in the 1920s in the Ukrainian SSR proceeded at a very rapid pace. By 1928, 58 newspapers were published in Ukrainian in the Ukrainian SSR (68.8% of the total number in the Ukrainian SSR). In 1928, 71.2% of magazines were published in Ukrainian in the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1929, this figure had risen to 84.0%.

The Wikipedia article mixes facts with anti-Russian opinions, but even here you can see how much the communists loved to nurture Ukrainian identity.
When I arrived in Ukraine in the 1980s, I was struck by the fact that all cultural life was conducted in Ukrainian. Shop signs, newspapers, magazines, not only television programs but entire TV channels, were entirely in Ukrainian, regularly broadcasting songs and dances by Ukrainian actors and dancers.
And after gaining “independence,” the Ukrainian authorities began to accuse the communists in all media outlets of allegedly oppressing the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian speakers, which is the most brazen hutzpah.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Украинизация
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Estelle Platini @[email protected] · 2025-10-02 · 20:32 UTC

"Revolution consists in… destroying the ‘administrative apparatus’ and the whole state machine, replacing it by a new one."

"Abolishing the bureaucracy at once, everywhere and completely, is out of the question. It is utopia. But to smash the old bureaucratic machine at once and to begin immediately to construct a new one… this is not utopia."

Vladimir Lenin wrote in his pamphlet entitled "The State and Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution" (written in 1917 to explain and prepare for the October Revolution)

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Jyoti Mishra @[email protected] · 2024-11-21 · 01:17 UTC

Posting this with a load of side-eye...

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder - Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

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Jyoti Mishra @[email protected] · 2024-11-21 · 01:17 UTC

Posting this with a load of side-eye...

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder - Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

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Jyoti Mishra @Jyoti · 2024-11-21 · 01:17 UTC

Posting this with a load of side-eye...

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder - Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

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Jyoti Mishra @[email protected] · 2024-11-21 · 01:17 UTC

Posting this with a load of side-eye...

“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder - Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

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tallship @[email protected] · 2024-10-15 · 01:51 UTC

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