To be men! That is the Stalinist law! -We must learn from Stalin his sincere intensity his concrete clarity ...Stalin is the moon, the maturity of man and the peoples. Stalinists, Let us bear this title with pride. ...Stalinist workers, clerks, women take care of this day! The light has not vanished. the fire has not disappeared, there is only the growth of light, bread, fire and hope in Stalin's invincible time! ...In recent years the dove, Peace, the wandering persecuted rose, found herself in his shoulders and Stalin, the giant one, carried her at the heights of his forehead, ...A wave beats against the stones of the shore. But Malenkov will continue his work.
Neruda's own loyalty to Stalin had motivated him, while a Chilean consul, to give false Chilean passports to a team sent to Mexico to assassinate Leon Trotsky in 1940, who had been a rival of Stalin in the Soviet Union. (That attempt was repelled by Trotsky's guards.) He also gave a Chilean passport to the Mexican painter David Siquieros so he could flee the country while on bail after taking part in an attack on Trotsky's residence. Notice that Neruda was hoping for a new maximal leader in Georgi Malenkov, Stalin's immediate successor as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Malenkov didn't last long as leader; he was out-maneuvered and ousted by Khrushchev. He survived into! his 90s , however.
Long live the towering genius of all humanity, the teacher and guide who is leading us victoriously to communism our beloved Comrade Stalin!"
(N. S. Khrushchev: Speech at 18th. Congress CPSU, March 1939, in: "The Land of Socialism Today and Tomorrow"; Moscow; 1939 -- Michael Pugliese