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X.A.9. December 52. - page four especially in the Garman Democratic Republic were most significant to all those who are aware of the underlying Soviet plan. Two reports received from Poland bring interesting details" | of $#88P conclusions can be drawn on what the Polish model state | will be like in the future. One report comes from Upper Silesda. It speaks of the huge. effort made, in carrying out the six-years-plan which should lead into transforming this entire mining area into one giant kombinat, the “Ruhr Basin of the East", Including Polish and Czechoslodvak territories, the aspect of the country is entirely changed: new cities and mammouth industrial plants are built. Labor forces from all over Poland, Czechoslovakia, and important groups of Chinese are used, According to plans, tre industrial population in the area should be increased by 1955 of 55% as compared with pre-war figures. One special project is the first new “socialist city" in Poland: Nowa-Huta near Krakowe Building of the city - led by Soviet planners is already well in progresse The center of the town surrounds a large Red Square with the most important official buildings: the Central Administration Palace, the city offices, the cultural house. Housing facilities are constructed for a first lot of 120.000 inhabitants to be increased with ensuing developments. “he life of the city are the giant metallurgical plants, all equiped with the most modern Soviet machinery and XX - according to our infovmant ready to start production in a very near future. Of course all facilities - shops, transportation, cultural centers, schools - are planned on a uniform public basis. “nother rpport comes from the North, from the previously Danzig territory. A huge project has just been worked out and - interesting} enough - will have to be carried out mainly by young German engineers and architects, among the group of those selected in Saxony. The three cities of Gdansk (Danzig), Sopot and Gdynia are to be reunited in a single unit. All the remants of a "non-Polish" past will have to be eliminated. ‘his means the historic buildings in these cities and the many homes and public constructions of the Barock and Renaissance era will have to disappear. They will be replaced and the cities further developed on the basis of a single This plan has been designed by Sussian and Polish architects. said to reflect, in its purest form, the new democratic style. ‘the triple dity of Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia will thus become the model of Soviet art and thinking in a socialist state. but it will not remain a purely ideological and artistic experiment; it will be highly purpsseful and practical; taking into full account the vital strategic and transportation role of that area. It is indeed an important harbor on the Baltic Sea and simultaneously the ending point of two important projects: the North-South highway and the Bug-Vistula waterwaye 3.