Let us Focus Our Efforts on the Main Problems

A particular feature of the present phase of the battle to strengthen socialist legality consists in the fact that questions of improving discipline, legality, and the maintenance of law and order rank among the most vital problems in importance. This is a manifestation of the Soviet people's growing impatience with everything that keeps them from living and working normally and from taking full advantage of developed socialism. At the November 1982 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, which elaborated the party's strategy for the next few years, among the most urgent tasks noted were those of increasing responsibility for adhering to general state and public interests, decisively rooting out narrow bureaucratic and local interests, and waging a fight against any infractions of party, state, or labor discipline. Iu. V. Andropov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, emphasized especially that the question of a zealous attitude toward the public interest is primary to realizing our plans. And its resolution must be ensured through a system of practical measures.