ABSTRACT
The Twenty-Seventh Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Congress provided a detailed interpretation of the philosophy of peaceful coexistence as we move from the old to the new century and validated the concept of an all-embracing system of peace and international security. Following the CPSU Central Committee April Plenum, the Politburo conducted a hard and impartial analysis of the position and started even at that time to seek a way out of the situation. Soviet people display a natural desire to look into everything themselves, to gain a better understanding of what is happening, and even more so to become knowledgeable participants in the nationwide struggle against the danger of war and in international contacts. The establishment of normal, businesslike relations with states from the opposite system, apart from anything else, would shake anti-Sovietism and therefore anticommunism, thus diminishing reactionary pressure against democratic gains and aspirations.
