J. V. Stalin
Source: Works, Vol. 11, January, 1928 to March, 1929
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
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Greetings to the Leninist Young Communist League on its tenth anniversary!
The Leninist Young Communist League was, and is, the young reserve of our revolution. Tens and hundreds of thousands of the finest representatives of the younger generation of workers and peasants have been trained in the ranks of the Young Communist League, received their revolutionary steeling and entered our Party, our Soviets, our trade unions, our Red Army, our Red Navy, our co-operatives, and our cultural organisations, to serve as the successors of the Bolshevik old guard.
The Young Communist League has succeeded in this difficult task because it has worked under the guidance of the Party; it has been able in its activities to combine study in general, and the study of Leninism in particular, with its day-to-day practical work; it has been able to educate the younger generation of working men and women and peasant men and women in the spirit of internationalism; it has been able to find a common language between the old and the young Leninists, between the old and the young guard; it has been able to subordinate all its work to the interests of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the victory of socialist construction.
It is owing to this alone that the Young Communist League has succeeded in holding aloft the banner of Lenin.
Let us hope that in the future, too, the Young Communist League will succeed in performing its duty towards our proletariat and the international proletariat.
Greetings to the two-million reserve of our Party, the Leninist Young Communist League!
Long live the young communist generation!
J. Stalin
Pravda, No. 252, October 28, 1928