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    "ocrText": "--2\nAs regards the Soviet Union, its interests are inseparable from\nthe cause of peace. Our Party cannot be indebted to fraternal parties,\nand it must in its turn render them support and also support their\npeoples in their struggle for liberation, in their struggle for the\npreservation of peace. As is known, this is just the way it acts.\n(Stormy applause.)\nAfter our Party had come into power in 1917 and after the Party had\nundertaken real measures for the liquidation of the capitalist and land-\nowners' oppression, the representatives of fraternal parties, admiring\nthe courage and successes of our Party, had given it the name of a\n\"shock brigade\" of the world revolutionary and workers' movement.\nBy this means they expressed the hope that the successes of the\n\"shock brigade\" will alleviate the position of the peoples languishing\nunder the oppression of capitalism. I think that our Party justified\nthese hopes, especially during the second world war, when the Soviet Union\nrouted the German and Japanese fascist tyranny and liberated the peoples\nof Europe and Asia from the threat of fascist slavery. (Stormy applause.)\nNaturally, it was very difficult to fulfill this honorable role while\nthe \"shock brigade\" was the one and only and while it had to fulfill this\nadvance role practically singlehanded. Now matters are very different.\nWhen from China and Korea to Czechoslovakia and Hungary, new \"shock\nbrigades\" have appeared in the form of popular democratic countries, it\nhas become easier for our Party to struggle, and work has become more\njoyful. (Stormy, prolonged applause.)\nAll Communist, democratic, workers' or peasants' parties which have\nnot yet come to power and which continue to work under the heel of\nDraconic bourgeois laws deserve special attention. For them, of course,\nit is more difficult to work. However, it is not so difficult to work as\nit was for us, Russian Communists, during the tsarist period when the\nsmallest movement of progress was considered the heaviest crime. However,"
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