By L. I. Brezhnev
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In recent years there has been a considerable extension of the Komsomol's range of tasks in questions of the labour, education, recreation and everyday life of young people. Party organisations have begun to show more determination in assigning responsible sectors of work to Komsomol members. The Komsomol is now more active sociopolitically. An indication of this is that over half a million young people have been elected to organs of state power — the Soviets of Working People's Deputies. Nearly 20 per cent of the deputies to the USSR Supreme Soviet are young people.
Party organisations, the trade unions and the Komsomol are in duty bound to do everything to ensure the strictest observance of laws and promote the legal education of the working people. Respect for legality and for the law must become part and parcel of the make-up of every person. This is particularly true of persons in office. No attempt to deviate from or to go round the law is to be tolerated, no matter what the motives. Nor can we tolerate any violation of the rights of individuals and infringement of the dignity of citizens.
I. BREZHNEV 1970-2 Speech delivered at a celebration meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR to mark their fiftieth anniversary. 2 October 1970 . . The USSR is more than a state, it is a voluntary, indissoluble socialist union of all Soviet peoples, being part of their very existence and forming the essence of their civic consciousness. Soviet people are deeply aware that their strength lies in their firm unity, on their readiness to help one another and together advance towards the great aim of communism under the leadership of the Communist Party.
