ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 9

ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION

Speech By Marshal Bulganin

(Rec. 8 p.ip-) LONDON, Nov. 7. This year had been a year of great successes for the Soviet people, Marshal Bulganin, the Soviet Defence Minister, claimed when he addressed the thirty-sixth October Revolution anniversary parade in Moscow’s Red Square today. He said the friendship among Soviet peoples had grown and the Soviet Union with the forces of peace and democracy had become stronger.

The Moscow Radio said that troops were lined up in .formation with thousands of guests standing on both sides of the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum.

Marshal Bulganin, whose speech was introduced fanfares, said the new decrees on agriculture and on consumer goods would improve the well-being of the Soviet people. The Soviet Union had striven to settle international differences. The Government had made the necessary proposals to the .West, but the West had made incompatible conditions for meeting the proposals. The Western Powers had made negotiattons impossible, Marshal Bulganin said. U.S. Bases The extension of American bases was continually being reported, and the Soviet had consequently to concern itself with its own defences Squadron after squadron of jet fighters and bombers roared over Red Square during the parade, said the radio commentator. The march past lasted 25 minutes, and then columns of civilians began to pass in front of the mausoleum and the Soviet leaders. Among those watching the parade were the Prime Minister, Mr Malenkov, the President. Marshal Voroshilov, and the Foreign Minister, Mr Molotov.

Towards the end of the military parade, according to the Moscow Radio, were artillery units “with guns, getting bigger and bigger, brought up by mighty mortars.’’ Marshal Bulganin said that the autumn manoeuvres, now completed, had enabled the Soviet troops to test their fighting skills and the use of up-to-date weapons in conditions approximating those of war. Soviet naval forces had visited parts of Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria.