Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the XXVI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Immediate Tasks of the Party in Home and Foreign Policy [antikvár]

Reporí of the Central Committee of the CPSU ío the XXVI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Immediate Tasks of the Party in Home and Foreign Policy February 23, 1981 Comrades Delegates, Esteemed Guests, The statutory Twenty-Sixth Congress of our Party has begun. It is called upon, as usual, to sum up the results and to determine tasks for the future. Appraising the íraversed path, we can say with assurance that the 25th Congress correctly defined the basic trends and lines of social development. The Party's Leninist generál line is being steadily put into effect; the tasks set at the previous congress have, on the whole, been successfully fulfiiled. The Tenth Five-Year Plan period saw a considerable increase in the country's national wealth. Its productive, scientific and technical potential has grown. The defence capability of the Soviet state has become greater. The vvell-being and the cultural level of the Soviet people have risen. The family of Soviet peoples has become still more closely united, its bonds of friendship are still stronger. The adoption of the new Constitution of the USSR was a major event. It ushered in a higher stage in the development of socialist democracy. Soviet people participate more and more actively in running the affairs of society and state. The indissoluble unity of the Party and the people has grown still stronger in the past five years. As before, it is the source of our society's gigantic strength. On the international pláne, the period under review has been rough and complicated. It has been mark ed above all by an intensive struggle of two lines in world affairs: the line of bridling the arms race, strengthening