Communist History Of World War II
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, October 1
Twelve years after the end of World War II the Soviet Union has decided to bring out its first exhaustive history of the struggle from the Communist point of view, says the New York “HeraldTribune” Continental editions. The Central Committee of the party has directed that the nation’s historians, generals and political leaders should produce a five-volume history within the next four years and has made it clear that the Communist Party must emerge as the hero and organiser of the victory. The new project has been made necessary by the decisions of last year's party congress which demanded the rewriting of history, which up till then had presented Stalin as the sole genius and leader of Russia’s war effort. The Central Committee said the historians must present communism as superior to all other political systems and portray the party as the leader of the people both at the front and in partisan detachments.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28397, 2 October 1957, Page 16
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