21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

At the projected rate of growth, Soviet textile production would, by the end of the seven-year plan, approach the level of the United States, both in total output and per capita.

The Soviet Union supported the plans of the People's Republic of Poland to establish an "atomic-free zone" in Europe and reduce conventional weapons in the area.

[3] All Communist and workers' parties would exist and struggle on the basis of complete independence and the principles of proletarian internationalism, voluntary cooperation and mutual assistance.

Khrushchev alluded to the need to draw lessons from the Chinese communes, lest other socialist countries blindly follow China's ideas of the Great Leap Forward and inflict irreparable economic and political damage.

The agreement stipulated that between 1959 and 1967, 78 large enterprises and power stations in the fields of metallurgy, chemistry, coal, petroleum and machinery manufacturing would be built in China.