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Humanity is facing new great prospects, illuminated by the decisions of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Congress demonstrated the living embodiment of the creative thought of Marxism-Leninism in guiding ideas. Since its adoption of a program for economic construction, for the development of social relations and culture, we feel how today's socialist society is gradually approaching communism. With its decisions, the Congress raised to a great height precisely that active work of thought that transforms theory into practice, and practice into theory. With the program for the construction of the communist society long dreamed of and suffered by mankind, the grandiose vision is connected in a single whole with the creative daily work, with the organizational work that is currently necessary. The program expands and enriches our concrete ideas about the shape of future society. It points to the enormous progress that will be made in the field of economics and social relations. It continued the scientific development of the questions of socialist democracy, of the role and significance of Marxist-Leninist ideology, of the political, moral, and aesthetic re-education of the people. One of the important tasks of the congress was practical measures for the final elimination of the harmful consequences of the cult of Stalin's personality. It is impossible to move forward, to new conquests, without eliminating everything that was layered during the cult of Stalin's personality and which prevented the creation of normal conditions for the creative activity of the masses and the individual, for the development of the forces and capabilities of the collective in the construction of communist society.

In the party's activities, congresses have always been the most important forum for taking stock, for checking what has been accomplished and for drawing up the general lines of future development. How much more does this apply to the upcoming VIII Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party! It is called upon to sum up the major results of a period of fruitful work and to adopt a plan for a communist offensive over the next twenty years. Our people have already deployed their initiative in the pre-congress discussion of the draft directives. They have adopted as their main goal the great economic task set by the party: to complete the construction of socialism and gradually move on to the extensive construction of the material and technical base of communism. The grandiose program in its scope envisages accelerating the pace of economic restructuring. In 1980, Bulgaria should be a country with a seven-fold increase in industrial production and an almost tripled agricultural output compared to 1960. This means fully revealing and fully utilizing the natural and material resources of our homeland, pursuing even faster rates of electrification, and bringing the struggle for technical progress to the forefront in all economic sectors.