p Report and Concluding Speech
Delivered at the Joint Jubilee Meeting
of the Central Committee of the CPSU,
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses
November 3-4, 1967

p Comrade members of the Central Committee, 

p Comrade deputies, 

p Our esteemed foreign guests, 

p Dear friends, 

p An epoch-making event took place fifty years ago, when the workers and peasants of Russia, led by the Communist Party, took state power into their own hands.

p Lenin’s words: "The workers’ and peasants’ revolution, the necessity for which the Bolsheviks had spoken all the time, has been accomplished,” resounded throughout Russia and the whole world. (Applause.)

p The assault on the Winter Palace was still in progress when the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies opened at the Smolny Palace. This Congress formed the Soviet Government with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of our Party and leader of the Revolution, at its head. (Applause.) This marked the birth of the world’s first state of workers and peasants, and the Great October Revolution began its invincible march across the boundless expanses of Russia.

p November 7 ushered in a new era in the history of mankind, beginning a new, socialist chronicle. On that day the cornerstone was laid in the foundation of the new, socialist society.

p The victory of the October Revolution opened the door to the realisation of the ideals of socialism. Within a short span of time our country surmounted its age-old backwardness and became a powerful, highly developed state. 8 Led by the Communist Party the working people of our country were the first to build socialism and the first to begin the building of communism.

p The October Socialist Revolution gave a mighty impetus to worldwide social development and accelerated the revolutionary and liberation struggle. The ideas of Marxism-Leninism, under whose banner the October Revolution triumphed, have today captured the minds and hearts of millions of people and become a great constructive force.

p The historical result of the past half century is that the world balance of forces has changed radically in favour of the working class, in favour of all the forces of progress, democracy and socialism.

p On the occasion of this memorable anniversary the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics warmly congratulate our dear compatriots—workers, collective farmers, intellectuals, men of the Soviet Army and Navy, all Soviet people. (Prolonged applause.}

p Throughout the world millions of working people are commemorating this jubilee of the October Revolution as their own. On this anniversary the Party of Lenin and the whole Soviet people send cordial revolutionary greetings to their foreign friends, comrades and brothers. (Applause.}

p Centuries will go by, mankind will achieve heights surpassing even the most daring fantasy of our contemporaries and many events will be forgotten. But November 7, 1917, the day when the first victorious socialist revolution was accomplished, will always be kept alive in the memory of generations to come. (Applause.}

The cause of the Great October Revolution will live through the ages! (Applause}