p Socialist countries are the vanguard of the world revolutionary and progressive forces. Ever since it asserted itself in countries with almost a third of the world population, socialism has made tremendous headway.

p All countries making up the socialist system are equal, each contributing to the cause of socialist and communist construction, to human progress.

We have already said that the first country to take the socialist road was the Soviet Union, the biggest and the most powerful socialist nation which is now building communist society.