The Great Stalin Is Immortal

"The Great Stalin Is Immortal" is a collection of speeches and reports from the commemorative meeting and scientific session held in Albania on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the great J.V. Stalin. His outstanding role in the Great October Socialist Revolution, the socialist construction, the Great Patriotic War, the extension of the socialist camp over a third of the globe and the defence of the purity of Marxism-Leninism are without parallel in human history. Even today, Stalin remains an eternal symbol for revolutionaries. Elaborating theory in opposition to the distortions of the opportunists in his time, Stalin further elaborated Lenin's formula on the construction of socialism in a single country and made critical contributions to the industrialization and collectivization of the country, as well as such fields as linguistics and economics. He also underlined the importance of working against enemies, both internal and external. He clarified that as long as the hostile imperialist states exist, their hatred of and action against the socialist world will not cease or die down, but become ever more inflamed due to their weakness and desperation. Stalin's role as a staunch proletarian internationalist shines through all of his activities as well, from the strengthening of the Comintern, the fight against nazi-fascism, and aiding in the liberation and socialist construction in the new postwar people's democracies, to the support he gave for the anti-imperialist national liberation movement, vital in the overthrow of the colonial yoke in the East. In this, Stalin also has the historic merit of exposing the first revisionists in power, the Titoites, that band of gangsters, a fifth column in the service of the Anglo-Americans and NATO. These events only further underlined the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat to continue the revolution through to the end, and the foolishness and outright opportunism of those who, after Stalin, spread illusions about a "peaceful" "parliamentary" road to socialism. Stalin's work has lived and will live on, and though these materials are from a small former country, socialist Albania, Comrade Enver Hoxha has said that the socialist world not only consists of the liberated bases but also the broad masses living under the old society yet striving for the new, first of all the proletariat.