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I was already a confirmed anti-Stalinist at the age of seventeen .... The
idea of killing Stalin filled my thoughts and feelings .... We studied
the `technical' possibilities of an attack .... We even practiced.
If they had condemned me to death in 1939, their decision would have been
just. I had made up a plan to kill Stalin; wasn't that a crime?
When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look
back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual
of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific
attitude about someone is quite different from one's personal attitude.
Alexander Zinoviev,
1993
.
Alexander Zinoviev,
Les confessions d'un homme en trop
(Paris: Olivier Orban, 1990), pp. 104, 188, 120.
Humo interview, 25 February 1993, pp. 48--49.
I think there are two `swords': one is
Lenin
and the other Stalin.
The sword of Stalin has now been discarded by the Russians.
Gomulka
and
some people in Hungary have picked it up to stab at the Soviet Union and
oppose so-called Stalinism.
The imperialists also use this sword to slay people with.
Dulles,
for
instance, has brandished it for some time. This sword has not been lent
out, it has been thrown out. We Chinese have not thrown it out.
As for the sword of
Lenin,
hasn't it too been discarded to a certain
extent by some Soviet leaders? In my view, it has been discarded to a
considerable extent. Is the October Revolution still valid? Can it still
serve as the example for all countries? Khrushchov's report at the
Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union says it is
possible to seize power by the parliamentary road, that is to say, it is
no longer necessary for all countries to learn from the October
Revolution. Once this gate is opened, by and large
Leninism
is thrown
away.
Mao Zedong,
November 15, 1956
.
Mao Tsetung,
Speech at the Second Plenary
Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Selected Works of
Mao Tsetung
(Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1977), vol. 5, p. 341.
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