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Translation of the official Communist Party, Soviet Union (CPSU) report on the 4/9-4/10/68 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Contents include: problems in the international Communist movement; problems in other socialist countries, namely China, Cuba, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland; the Vietnamese conflict; U.S. domestic problems and the presidential election; the PUEBLO incident; the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; the situation in West Germany and the Middle East. Report. Central Intelligence Agency. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Jun 28, 1968. Date Declassified: May 28, 2003. Complete. 52 page(s).
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Twenty-third Congress of the CPSU and by the international
communist movement.
85. The villainous murder by the racists of the universally
famous leader of American negroes, Martin Luther
King - this eminent fighter for peace, defender of the
civil rights of negroes, and fighter against the aggressive
war in Vietnam - aroused a mighty explosion of popular
protest against the crimes of imperialist reaction.
On the streets of Washington and other major cities of
America, tens of thousands of soldiers armed to the teeth
waged war against the enraged negro population. In a number
of cities, entire blocks of homes were burned and
destroyed the number of killed and wounded is in the tens
of thousands. Things went so far that the city of Chicago,
with a population of many millions, was in a "state of
rebellion" according to the releases of the major Western
wire services.
86. These clashes in the cities of the United States
are a new and acute manifestation of the profound contradictions
festering in the womb of American society. This
is an explosion of rage of those who are underprivileged,
deprived of their rights, worn out by racial and social
discrimination and indignant against the criminal war in
Vietnam.
87. So this is how the "Great Society", to which the
American people have been led by the ruling circles of the
United States, headed by President Johnson, looks today.
88. Together with progressive forces of the entire
world, the Soviet people raises its voice in support of
the struggling democratic forces of America, a voice of
angry protest against the brutalities of American reaction,
and our propaganda organs must make sure that this voice
of the Soviet people resounds the world over.
89. Comrades, another question which was discussed
at the Plenary Session in connection with the results of
the session of the Political Consultative Committee in
Sofia, was the question of non-proliferation of nuclear
weapons. This is a problem of great fundamental importance,
which at the present time has become one of the main elements
of our struggle in the international arena.
90. The conclusion of an agreement on non-proliferation
is viewed by the CC/CPSU and the Soviet Government pri--
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Translation of the official Communist Party, Soviet Union (CPSU) report on the 4/9-4/10/68 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Contents include: problems in the international Communist movement; problems in other socialist countries, namely China, Cuba, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland; the Vietnamese conflict; U.S. domestic problems and the presidential election; the PUEBLO incident; the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; the situation in West Germany and the Middle East. Report. Central Intelligence Agency. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Jun 28, 1968. Date Declassified: May 28, 2003. Complete. 52 page(s). Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.
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