The Decade That Cannot Be Deleted

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As was stated in 2013:

The present should not be used to negate the past, and the past should not be used to negate the present. Experiments in socialism from before reform produced the conditions that allowed the experiments that came after, and in this way the previous period persists in the new one...to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU — as great a Party as it was — scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union — as great a socialist state as it was — shattered into pieces. This is a lesson from the past!...had Comrade Mao Zedong been condemned unsparingly at the time, would our Party still stand? Would our country’s socialist system still stand? They would not. Nihilism would have brought chaos. Therefore, the correct handling of our relationship to experiments in socialist construction before and after reform isn’t a secondary historical question, but a political question of primary importance.

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