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Founding Congress of Stalin Society of North America Held In the USA
March 8, the Stalin Society of North America (SSNA) was founded as an
educational, political and historical society at a meeting in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA. The Founding Congress was attended by about a dozen people,
including many young people, from different parts of the United States, from
several different ML parties and organizations as well as unaffiliated people
The Congress opened with a reading of greetings from the Indian SSNA. After
some discussion a mission statement and by-laws were drawn up and unanimously
approved. These will be available at the web-site of the Society at
www.stalinsociety.org/ and should soon be translated into Spanish and French.
An Executive Committee was also established according to the by-laws in order
to guide the work of the society.
The founders were all in agreement that the Society will not become a political
party or organization. However, it is not meant to be an academic institution.
The Society hopes to have an influence on the revolutionary movement and left
in general in North America, by providing an understanding of the contributions
of J.V. Stalin to Marxism-Leninism and to the building of socialism in the USSR.
At a separate event in Cambridge on the same evening, Professor Grover Furr of
Montclair State University gave an inspiring talk to some 40 people on his two
books, Khrushchev Lied and the Murder of Kirov, followed by a lively question
and answer session. Professor Furr was presented with a plaque by Alfonso
Casal, the chair of the Society. Alfonso Casal stated: The society was
specifically created to counter anti-communist history, cold war myths, and
specifically to restore the original historical verdict of Joseph Stalin as one
of the giants of the 20th centuries and one of the figures in the progression
of mankind. Casal then thanked Stalin Societies from England to India to
Pakistan for their help. He then continued, From the first, we knew we were
going to honor an individual whose numerous articles both in Russian and
English, whose two books Khrushchev Died and the Murder of Kirov, have placed
him as the leading Marxist writer of Soviet history. The full video of the talk
(2 hours) can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPY0O3HN3rA
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