The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus for Ideological Work believes that it is necessary to repeal the decisions of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, at which Khrushchev exposed Stalin’s personality cult.
MINSK, December 6 – Sputnik. Belarusian communists would like to see a monument to Joseph Stalin erected in Minsk, stated Pyotr Petrovsky, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) for Ideological Work, at the CPB Central Committee plenary session.
According to Petrovsky, a group of citizens, including party members, contacted the Communist Party of Belarus regarding this matter.
“This task (installing the monument – Sputnik) is one stage in another, more important process – the reversal of the decisions of the shameful 20th Congress of the CPSU,” Petrovsky noted in his report.
This refers specifically to the congress at which Nikita Khrushchev debunked Stalin’s personality cult. Petrovsky noted that, for example, the Chinese Communist Party views Khrushchev’s revisionism as erroneous.
“Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Deng Xiaoping, believed that ‘turning everything connected with Stalin upside down without considering the consequences’ was the wrong move, which led to crisis phenomena in Soviet society,” the Central Committee secretary noted.
Petrovsky also pointed out that the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in July 2025 had already recognized Khrushchev’s report as erroneous and politically biased.
“This decision became part of the congress’s resolution aimed at ‘restoring the full historical justice’ in relation to the Soviet period and the person of Joseph Stalin,” said a representative of the Communist Party of Belarus.
In his opinion, the current assessment of Stalin’s activities is not a question of restoring this politician’s personal reputation, but a question of correctly understanding Marxism-Leninism, socialist construction in the USSR, and other more global phenomena.
Petrovsky proposed recognizing the decision of the 20th Congress of the CPSU as erroneous at the level of the Communist Party of Belarus, and also raising this issue at the international level before all communist parties of the former USSR.
“This will be an act of historical justice and an open and frank work on mistakes,” Petrovsky is confident.
In addition to this topic, other issues were discussed at the plenary session, including the party’s participation in the 7th All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, whose next session is scheduled for December 18-19.