One of the important reasons for the failure and disintegration of the first socialist state was that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was detached from the people and became a privileged bureaucratic machine that defended only its own interests.
We are now constantly emphasizing that we are such a big party, that we are the party that has been in power for the longest time in the world, and that we are also the party with the largest number of party members, and that we are such a big political party, and that we have great appearances and great difficulties, so now that we have been in power for so long, are we facing these problems of corruption, and are we facing the problems of constantly maintaining close ties with the masses, and how can we do this? It is also an issue that our party is constantly pondering and advancing.
This is also why we have repeatedly stressed that we must promote the party's self-revolution and that we must strengthen our flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of the people.
The Communist Manifesto has long pointed out that we do not have any interests that are different from the interests of the proletariat as a whole, that is, we communists have no special interests, we have exactly the same interests as the proletariat, we do not have any privileges, we are the representatives of the people, this is our people's stand, and this is also the fundamental stand that we must firm.
The Soviet Union itself overthrew the Soviet model and completely denied the history it had traveled, and what followed was that the Soviet Union had no ideology and no spiritual support at that time, and the Soviet people were thinking that we had taken the road for such a long time, could it be that we had taken the wrong path, and began to waver and doubt our spiritual beliefs and ideological beliefs, and many people began to pursue Western ideas, and ideology slowly moved closer to the West.
After every leader of the Soviet Union came to power, he had to overthrow the policies of the former leader, each took his own path, and there was no unified road, and a big reason was that the foundation of the Soviet Union was unstable in the early days of construction, which led to the failure to inherit and carry forward the spirit later, and the predecessors who built bridges and later took the road to dismantle all thought that they were right, but they did not think about the problem from the standpoint of the people, this is not what the people want, it is not in line with the interests of the people, and they only regard themselves as the ruling organs, and they have forgotten their original intentions and have been divorced from the most basic needs of the people. Since the Soviet Union's Khrushchev came to power, he broke the people's worship of Stalin, the Soviet Union has never been able to confirm its correct direction and development history, the Soviet road model was overthrown, the spiritual leader was overthrown, that is, we often say "lack of calcium", plus a series of reasons such as corruption and reform errors in the later period of the Soviet government, etc., together to form a more serious consequence, It directly led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it is also affecting the development of Russia until now.
This is why we have been emphasizing over the years that no matter when we go, we must not forget the way we came, we must study the history of the party, the history of new China, the history of reform and opening up, the history of socialist development, and now there is a 5,000-year history of the development of Chinese civilization, these are the roads we have walked, these are the source of our knowledge and strength, and they are also the confidence that we now adhere to cultural self-confidence, theoretical self-confidence, institutional self-confidence, and road self-confidence, which are our spiritual path and pursuit. It is also the crystallization of the history of our 5,000-year civilization.
At the meeting to commemorate Lu Xun, Yu Dafu said that a nation without heroes is unfortunate, a nation that has heroes but does not know how to respect and cherish it is incorrigible, and there is no hope for a country that has great figures but does not know how to support, love, and admire, and we can see how painful the experience of the Soviet Union is.
Some comments on the Internet are very interesting, saying that as long as Putin is in Russia, the economy will not be able to develop at a high speed, and now basically Russia's economy is in a state of not retreating and not falling behind, but if there is no leader like Putin, Russia will not be able to hold on now.
When the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other, they still said that it was an ideological contradiction, so let's look at it now, has the relationship between Russia and the United States eased after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Why, because in the final analysis, international competition is a competition of strength, a competition of interests, and in the final analysis, a dispute of interests, and it is impossible for a big country to get the opportunity for peaceful development because it is ideologically close to other countries.
These histories are also very alarming to us, like us, when you were in school, you learned the last lesson, that is, this defeated country after the war, you have to learn the history of the victorious country, and the history of your own country is not allowed to study, why do you say that? Because Gong Zizhen has such a discussion in the second volume of ancient history heroes, he said that the country that destroys people must first go to its history, and if you want to destroy the spirit of a nation from the root, you have to start with the memories of young people, that is, the first thing is to change their education, so that they forget their own history, give up their own persistence, give up their national spirit, have no faith, just like slaves, which is why the country has been emphasizing that the ideological struggle is surging fiercely, which is indeed very painful.
Typical is that Japan wantonly revised its textbooks, for example, the invasion of China is a sure thing, they changed it to entering and leaving the mainland, and in their own textbooks they said that the Japanese army was forced to carry out a war in order to ensure public order, and that they had been beautifying and embellishing their aggression when they invaded China, and so on, and they have been beautifying and embellishing their aggressive acts, which is not only a test and trampling on the dignity of our country, but also a disrespect for history. It is often said that the Japanese nation is very bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and its attitude towards the tough is very good, but they want to hold the real interests in their hands, and the Japanese nuclear sewage is discharged into the ocean, and they now say that we have no choice, if you look at it in a few decades, they must say that it was the decision of the previous generation, and we are also victims?
If history is wantonly revised, and national honor and disgrace and national spirit can be forgotten, then what will we rely on in the future to inherit and carry forward the traditional culture and values of our 5,000-year-old civilization?