Report to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on the work of the Central Committee, March 10, 1939 Quotes

“If our Party propaganda for some reason or other goes lame, if the Marxist-Leninist training of our cadres begins to languish, if our work of raising the political and theoretical level of these cadres flags, and the cadres themselves cease on account of this to show interest in the prospect of our further progress, cease to understand the truth of our cause and are transformed into narrow plodders with no outlook, blindly and mechanically carrying out instructions from above - then our entire state and Party work must inevitably languish.”
― Joseph Stalin, Report to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on the work of the Central Committee, March 10, 1939