Protecting the Future from the World-Behind-the-Scenes or What Really Happened at the 19th Congress

The 19th congress was held in Moscow from October 5th to October 14th, 1952. It elected a new composition of the Central Committee of the party. To understand why history has confirmed exactly the capitulatory, self-liquidating essence of the CPSU, one should turn to a little-known episode from the activities of the Central Committee, elected by the 19th Congress.
After the congress, on October 16th, a plenum of the Central Committee was held. J.V. Stalin spoke at the plenum. His speech was unexpected for the plenum participants: not in the sense that no one expected the party leader to speak at the plenum, but in terms of its content. This speech by J.V. Stalin threw the plenum into a stupor. There were two reasons for this:
Firstly, J.V. Stalin directly warned the members of the Central Committee about the readiness to betray the cause of spravedlivost’, to bourgeois degeneration and to collusion with imperialism, — of those whom the crowd considered to be his closest and most faithful companions, and in some cases, his successors. So J.V. Stalin directly expressed his distrust of V.M. Molotov and A.I. Mikoyan.
Secondly, J.V. Stalin told the members of the Central Committee about what they should have guessed themselves: that he was already old and tired, and therefore the time would come fairly soon when he would not be able to lead the party and the state, as a result of which it was necessary to think in order to elect in advance another person to the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the governing party.
In this documentary, we give the testimony of a participant in the plenum.
The well-known, authoritative and respected writer and poet, K.M. Simonov, became a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee, elected by the 19th Congress. In his memoirs recorded on a tape recorder in the hospital shortly before his death, deciphered and published under the title “Through the eyes of a man of my generation” after his passing away, he reports, referring to one of his diary entries, about the plenum on October 16th, 1952.

For the new to English terms (SPRAVYEDLIVOST'; PRAVIOUSNESS; NRAVIOUSNESS; SOVEST; SOBORNOST) used in this documentary series, see the following videos:
WHO ARE RUSSIANS? ― https://youtu.be/kmyylxUaFOI
WHAT MAKES RUSSIANS DIFFERENT? ― https://youtu.be/3ORQ062aWuU

For a short introduction into The Conception of Social Safety (KOB), see the following video:
WHAT IS THE CONCEPTION OF SOCIAL SAFETY? ― https://youtu.be/S8JshcVXG3s

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