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| | The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | During this war more than 5,319,00 people were put forward as candidates for admission to the Party (History of the CPSU, GIPL, Moscow 1960 p.576, Russian edition), a figure which is, in my opinion equally reliable. |
 | | After the war, in particular in the years 1945-1952, the ranks of the party had grown in a particularly rapid fashion, to the extent of at least 700,000 per year on the average. |
 | | It follows that for the beginning of the 19th Congress of the Party [1952], not less than 4,900,000 communists were enrolled in the course of seven post war years [see The CPSU in its resolutions 7th Edition part III p 553]. |
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