At the head of the list I set an increase in the number of Central Committee members to a few dozen or even a hundred. It is my opinion that without this reform our Central Committee would be in great danger if the course of events were not quite favourable for us (and that is something we cannot count upon).

Then, I intend to propose that the congress should on certain conditions invest the decisions of the State Planning Commission with legislative force, meeting in this respect the wishes of Comrade Trotsky - to a certain extent and on certain conditions.

As for the first point, i.e., increasing the number of CC members, I think it must be done in order to raise the prestige of the CC, to do a thorough job of improving our administrative machinery, and to prevent conflicts between small sections of the CC from acquiring excessive importance for the future of the party.

It seems to me that our party has every right to demand from the working class fifty to one hundred CC members,

Today seems a better day. It's getting a little bit warmer in Siberia and it is good, meaning I might get over this terrible cough I have for a pretty long time now. I wish I could go to doctor, but the only doctor is so far away, it is practically impossible to get there by walking, especially in this weather...

Both of these remarks, of course, are made only for the present, on the assumption that both these outstanding and devoted party workers fail to find an occasion to enhance their knowledge and amend their one-sidedness.

I can't see my family suffering anymore. I can't understand why Stalin kept me alive and didn't kill, like other opponents of his. It's probably one of his tricky techniques that he is using to manipulate people. Maybe he keeps me here to make me go crazy or maybe he thinks it's going to hurt his ego somehow. Well, I was forced into exile. I guess it didn't look good for the crowd. I really don't think it would influence the public opinion that much. There are only few who see the reality with no cult glasses on. Others are totally into Stalin's policies, they are admiring him and can't picture themselves without him...miserable creatures. Under his control they'll probably stay ignorant about totalitarianism forever or as long as Stalin will live. Him and his Communist apparatus control every aspect of public and private life. Sooner or later, at least I hope, more people will realize how intolerant, capricious and rude Joseph Stalin really is.

I shall not give any further appraisals of the personal qualities of other members of the CC. I shall just recall that the October episode with Zinoviev and Kamenev was, of course, no accident, but neither can the blame for it be laid upon them personally, any more than non-Bolshevism can upon Trotsky.

"History is philosophy, teaching by example." How we judge the past, and its events, is in fact a reflection of our own moral values as individuals, and our particular place in historical time. Each student may judge Stalin differently. I see him as a rude, cruel, immoral and capricious dictator.

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