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- 1 2 Jacobsson, Benny. Sovjetunionen idag - Kritik av KPML(r):s prosovjetiska politik. Stockholm: Kommunistiska Arbetarförlaget, 1984. p. 114.
- ↑ Jacobsson, Benny. Sovjetunionen idag - Kritik av KPML(r):s prosovjetiska politik. Stockholm: Kommunistiska Arbetarförlaget, 1984. p. 88.
- ↑ LIBRIS [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ See for example this document Archived April 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ A document produced by the Central Committee of the PLA in 1972 stated "In this grave situation created by N. Khrushchev's betrayal the time has come for you Soviet communists to perform your lofty revolutionary duty towards your glorious party, people and country, towards the proletariat and peoples of the whole world, not to allow the treacherous Khrushchevite clique to jeopardize the future of socialism and communism. The Soviet revolutionary communists have never sat back on the strength of their traditions and merits of the past. Today more than ever before these traditions should be reasserted in the same revolutionary spirit, with the same determination and devotion to principle, to defend the glorious name of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to raise high its revolutionary banner, flung to the ground by N. Khrushchev." Source: "Reject the Revisionist Thesis of the XX Congress". Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2006-11-10.
- ↑ Note de l’éditeur, Proclamation-Programme des Communistes (Bolcheviques) Révolutionnaries Soviétiques [ dead link ]