misunderstanding and blow it into a rift between Lenin
and Stalin. But they miserably failed. Stalin was very
much annoyed by these attempts. He made an open
apology. He submitted his resignation before the Party
Plenum. But the Plenum had unanimously decided
Stalin to continue as the General Secretary of the
Party. Trotsky and his group too accepted it. Again, in
the Party too Stalin had placed his resignation letter.
The entire Congress including Trotsky had rejected
his resignation letter and asked him to continue as
the General Secretary. Then Stalin wrote, ‘yes
Comrades, I am rude. I am rude to those who try to
turn the wheel of history back. Sorry, I cannot be polite.
This is my task.’ Trotsky never stopped his
conspiracies. Even after Lenin’s death, he wrote
several things. The discussion on the questions of
building socialism, industrialisation of Russia was very
much needed. The Five Years Plan was prepared by
Stalin and successfully implemented. Socialism was
advancing, new industries and new working class were
coming up as a result. But, on the other side, the
conspiracies continued. Trotsky and followers formed
themselves into a group called ‘Fifth Column’
consisting of 500 p eople and three layers of
leadership. One would be headed by Trotsky himself.
It was the first group. The second group of leadership
was in the hands of Bukharin as he was the Minister.
He was able to contact the people if the first group
was exposed. The third group was under the
leadership of Kamenev. This conspiracy went on. The
Bolshevik party and Stalin were vigilant against this
conspiracy. Stalin gave more responsibilities to these
conspirators so that they can get exposed. Finally in
1929, these conspirators decided to kill Stalin as the
only way to kill best of the Bolsheviks. Com. Stalin,
Com.Khagnowitch, Com.Malatov, Com.kinov,
Com.Maxim Gorky, and other Comrades were in the
top of the list of 42 people they wanted to kill. This is
history. Now it is known to every- body. They could kill
many of them.
In 1935, when Kinov was coming out from a political
meeting, he was shot dead. The culprit was caught
and the whole conspiracy was exposed. First, Trotsky
was sent to Siberia. The Bolshevik Party gave him
money and everything to live Siberia. But in Siberia
too he continued his conspiracy. Driven out from
Siberia, he first came to Turkey’s Constantinople. He
went there on the plea of leading a world revolution.
But his main objective was to destroy Socialist Russia
and give a new turn to the world proletariat. Turkey’s
Communist Party led a huge struggle against the govt.
there to get Trotsky a shelter. The imperialist powers
too were pressing the Turkish govt. for it. So he was
sent to Constantinople, an island, to provide him a
shelter. From there he continued his activities.
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Please let me be brief. Maxim Gorky was killed. His
son was killed in 1936. Best Bolsheviks were killed.
But Stalin’s leadership had succeeded in exposing the
conspiracies and finally there was a Moscow trail. All
the hard core revisionist leaders like Kamenev,
Zinoviev, Rycob, Tomsky, and Bukharin accepted their
crimes. They confessed and finally punished. This
was the history. An unparalleled incident in open
camera and all the international representatives were
sitting. In the open camera and Supreme Court had
the hearing and gave its verdict and many convicted
persons were shot dead. The first phase of Moscow
trail the conspiracy was exposed. Then came the
Second World War. As we all know, under the
leadership of Stalin the struggle against Fascism
became victorious. The whole world was saved. It was
the struggle led by Stalin that defeated fascism headed
by Hitler and protected socialism and led to its
advance. And thirty years under his leadership the
socialism advanced winning many victories.
So, Comrades! To conclude from the Great
Russian October Socialist Revolution, the imperialists
are the enemies of Socialism and Marxism. The
imperialists alw ays try to w age wars, hatch
conspiracies against the proletariat, against the
socialist ideas, against the proletarian ideology. So
we have to wage the ideological struggle. We must
be vigilant. W e have to build and develop the
Communist Party, taking lessons from the Russian
revolution, Lenin’s concept of the Party and the way
he had developed the Bolshevik Party.
Today we have to develop such a party and wage
struggle, concrete struggle. Today, as you know, the
ruling classes are very active. The Soviet Union had
collapsed because of the betrayers. Today we are
living in a very crisis ridden situation. So, taking
lessons from the Russian revolution, remembering
Lenin’s struggle, remembering the victorious socialist
revolution in 1917 we have to pledge to go ahead, to
march ahead and protect Marxism Leninism.
Inquilab Zindabad !
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