"The new electoral system gives us a powerful tool to improve the work of the entire Soviet system, in order to eliminate bureaucratic phenomena, shortcomings and deformations in Soviet organizations. And these shortcomings are, as you know, very real. Our Party organizations must be prepared for the election campaign. In the elections, they must deal with hostile propaganda and hostile candidates."
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Zhdanov in 1937. Translated from Swedish in the article Om socialismens demokratiska erfarenheter by Anders Carlsson.
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Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1896 – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates, replacing Sergei Kirov as Leningrad party chief and playing a major role in the Great Purge. His reputation suffered during World War II after he supported the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and the Winter War against Finland. However, he would later be influential in shaping Soviet cultural and foreign policy at the beginning o
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