Struggle in Soviet Russia

In this interview, which is mainly used to explain political opinions, Victor first gave a visionary blueprint, in his words, to build the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic into an "advanced modern region", It is the main task for him and the new Central Committee of the Republic headed by him in the next few years, and he has full confidence in accomplishing this task.

The content of the article that follows is Victor's specific elaboration on "advanced modern areas". In his words, a so-called "advanced modernized area" should have at least four basic conditions, namely: strong economic strength, advanced and concentrated scientific research institutions and professional colleges, and soft resources centered on history and humanities. The social and political atmosphere of strength, unity and progress.

Among these four basic conditions, the first one need not be mentioned. In Victor’s words, the development and construction of any region should be based on economy. If there is not enough economic foundation to pave the way, any other form of construction will be It is a rootless weed. To put it another way, if the growing material needs of the people cannot be met, no other issues can be discussed.

In terms of the construction of scientific research institutions and professional colleges, Victor's proposition is that the future society will be a society dominated by technology and talents, and the importance of science and technology has been significantly reflected in the wars in the past few years. , Facts have proved that whoever masters the advanced nature of science and technology can stand in a leading position. This leading is not only reflected in the military aspect, but also in the economic aspect.

To this end, Viktor plans to invest enough funds in education and construction to set up a series of technical colleges in the next few years, mainly in Vyborg, Petrozavodsk, Kem, Kondopoga and other cities. At the same time, it is planned to cooperate with the Soviet Academy of Sciences to establish "practical" research institutes related to electronics, medicine, and machinery manufacturing in the Republic. The so-called "practicality" is how to put the latest science and technology into civilian use.

As soon as Shvernik saw this, he heard that Comrade Stalin, who was not far away, had hung up the phone. He hurriedly turned his attention away from the newspaper and turned to look at Comrade Stalin who was walking back quickly.

"How do you feel?" Walking back to the sofa, Comrade Stalin put his hands on his knees and slowly sat down on the sofa. He glanced at Shivernik who was putting the newspaper back on the coffee table and asked, "Nikola. Mikhailovich, what do you think of the points Viktor made in this report?"

Shivernick glanced at the other party seemingly inadvertently, pondered for a moment, and smiled: "I only read a part, the two parts about economic construction and scientific research construction, one thing that must be admitted is that this young man has some problems. The views are more cutting-edge and more forward-looking than the old comrades."

In fact, judging from the first two parts, Shivernik can't see anything advanced or cutting-edge. After all, the two points mentioned by Victor are not the first to appear. To a certain extent, it even Can be seen as a cliché. If there is any difference, it is the "practical" research institute mentioned in his conception, because in the Soviet Union's scientific research system, scientific research is scientific research, and new technologies are not put into civilian research. belong to the category of scientific research.

The reason why Shvernik gave such a high evaluation is mainly to cater to Comrade Stalin's preferences. He is very clear that this interview must have been read to him before it was published in the newspaper. Now, since this report has been published. It was published in Pravda, and Comrade Stalin was still dissatisfied with the layout of the page, which showed that he was very optimistic about the report. At this time, Shvernik was not interested in going against his mood.

"No, no, we must evaluate this issue realistically," but to Shvernik's surprise, Comrade Stalin was not satisfied with his evaluation. The paper was pushed back to Shvernik and said, "You keep reading, look at the part below, I think this part below is the point."

"Oh?" Shivernick was stunned for a moment. He reached out and picked up the newspaper again and looked down carefully.

"I'm also a little curious about what I said," Kalinin, who had been sitting silently next to him, also leaned over. He coughed twice, and while reading the contents of the newspaper, he said, "To Comrade Viktor Viktorovich, I Still have a deep impression, is a young man with strong working ability..."

Comrade Stalin did not respond to these remarks, he took a puff of his pipe and said: "In this work plan proposed by Victor, a concept of 'spiritual civilization construction' is mentioned, you can focus on this aspect. "

At this time, Shvernik also happened to see this part, that is, the focus of the third part: the construction of soft power with history and humanities as the core. When discussing this part, Victor put forward a theory of "construction of spiritual civilization". He believes that the construction of the alliance should be divided into two parts, one part is the construction of material civilization to meet the needs of citizens' material life, and the other part is the construction of spiritual clarity to meet the needs of citizens' spiritual life.

In this report, Victor did not explain the concept of these two nouns in more depth, but such nouns are obviously not that difficult to understand, at least both Shvernik and Kalinin understand the meaning.

Victor believes that in the specific work of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic for a period of time in the future, the propaganda and agitation departments should focus on strengthening the construction of spiritual civilization. Ideal, moral, literate, disciplined Soviet citizen. Here, Victor implicitly proposed a new concept, that is, the concept of "four have" citizens, and this concept is obviously his first.

As one of the main contents of work in the ideological field, the construction of corresponding theories is extremely important. Those who can make achievements in this area are not ordinary people, such as Comrade Lenin and Comrade Bukharin. Of course, if the relevant theory wants to occupy a certain position in the ideological field of the alliance, it also needs to be recognized by the mainstream, which is a prerequisite.

Whether it is Shvernik or Kalinin, they want to clarify a question, that is, whether these theoretical concepts revealed by Victor in the interview have already formed a systematic theory, or whether there are only a few separate nouns.

Regrettably, these new concept terms are not covered much in the article, nor are they discussed in depth. Therefore, if you only read from this newspaper, you can only understand a little bit.

"Construction of spiritual civilization?" After reading the contents of the newspaper, Shvernik frowned slightly and said, "This is indeed a brand-new concept. It can even be linked to the psychological emptiness of capitalist society, and from that to justify our institutional superiority."

As I said before, in today's world, Western countries do not have any advantages in terms of institutions. On the contrary, in the field of ideological export, the Soviet Union has the real advantage. There are various reasons for this, including the economic crisis that swept the entire Western world before the war, as well as the impact of World War I and World War II. Therefore, within Western countries, many people agree with the advanced nature of the Soviet model, and sincerely believe that society ism is a more advanced system than capitalism, and it is the main reason why the left-wing movement flourished after the war.

Similarly, in the field of ideological confrontation, there are many examples of socialist systems and theories that are more advanced than capitalism. In terms of ideology and spirituality, socialists generally believe that why do Western capitalist countries have such a high suicide rate? Why do so many people pursue vulgar music, vulgar culture, etc.? There is no other reason, to put it bluntly, it is because people in Western capitalist society are empty of ideas.

Then, in turn, can a socialist society solve this problem of ideological emptiness? To be honest, so far, there is no targeted argument in the relevant theories.

Here, although Shvernik has not done any work in propaganda and agitation or theoretical research, he is still sensitive to the importance of this theory, because it can be used to fill in the spiritual and ideological fields of socialist theory. A blank.

In a word, it is how the working class maintains the advanced nature of ideology in the process of realizing the extremely rich communism construction process. How to maintain this advanced nature and ensure that the working class will not degenerate? Now we have the answer. In the process of material civilization construction, we should pay attention to spiritual civilization construction at the same time, and regard intangible ideological work as a tangible construction project.

Hearing what Shvernik said, Comrade Stalin smiled and said nothing. He stretched out his hand to take the newspaper, looked down at himself for a while, and then said: "As for the theoretical research work in this area, I will It has been handed over to Comrade Mikhail Andreevich, and I hope to see a systematic discussion, a complete theoretical system, but I am afraid it will take some time."

Shvernik and Kalinin nodded in unison, Mikhail Andreevich was Suslov, a man who was also very young but very capable in the field of theoretical research.