Oldal 1 [1]
XeAstHoe4. for December 1952,
SOVIET AGRICULTURAL, HYDROELECTRIC AND WATERWAY
PROJECTS.
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The fifth Five-Year-Plan, viewed from the angle of
essential production material and of industrial output, is one of
the most revealing documents. It shows the stage of Russian
military preparation and the timing of their strategie plans,
Thése very important conclusions were presented in a recent déspatch.
Studied from the pohnt of view of agriculture, eleetricity
and waterways, the Soviet economic plan leads to exactly the same
conclusion: a huge and uniformly planned effort is made all through
the Soviet orbit, not in order to reach the golden age of plenty,
but in view of a powerful strategic preparation. We have received
recently detailed reports on some sectors of this giant planning,
They give the most valuable conerete proof that the above-stated
fact corresponds with the actual reality.
The Fifth Five-~Years Plane
Harly in 1950, M.Saburovy took over the resort of economic
planning. He had to re-work the projects prepared by his predécessor,
the dismissed Minister Vosneshenski, and to have the new Five-Year¬
Plan ready for its start in 1951, It is to stretch until the end
of 1955, Although actually in operation for nearly two years, its
publieation was delayed until the reeent Party Congress. Official
propaganda eleverly slipped over that point and never explained the
gap between the two dates. The reasons however eat evident, if one .
recalls what changes have happened in the SovietV@ ing these last
twenty-two months, Relationship with China and Mongolia have been
clarifieds the equalization of uropean satellites has advanced
in a decisive ways; Western defense and Eastern block have taken much
clearer positions. Moscow now can lay down some of the ecards of its
economie planning and consequently of its strategie implications.
In connection with agriculture and inland-water resources,
will have to be inereased by 452; the wheat replacing much of the rye.
Cotton - the most important among industrial plants - is produced
by highly mechanized large enterprises, located mostly in Central
Asiatie Soviet Republics, « Stock farming - cattle, sheep, hog,
poultry - will have to reach at least pre-war levels. Meat production
is to inerease of 90243 textile of 80%. - The large-scale use of inland
water resources will serve irrigation and draining, electric prpduction
and low-cost transpoptation.
The means for reaching this ambitious aim have also been
diseussed by Malenkov and Saburove The regrouping o8 small kolkhoses
into larger units, whereever neddeds increasing mechanization of
agriculture and formation of more and strongly disciplined labor
brigades; reforestation; large draining, irrigation and fertilization
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