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Show "QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS SOVIET INDUSTRIAL PLAN By JOSEPH STALIN Russian Leader. WE HAD to economize oh food, schools and textiles to accumulate the means necessary nec-essary for the establishment of Industry. In-dustry. There was no other way to wipe out our technical poverty. There were comrades who were frightened and called to the party to retreat They said: "Why do we need your Industrialization, collectivization, col-lectivization, machinery, metallurgy, metallur-gy, tractors, combines and automobiles? automo-biles? It would be better to give us more textiles, to buy more raw materials for manufacturing articles arti-cles for general consumption and to give the people more of the little things that make life beautiful. It is a dangerous dream to attempt to create Industry and more so modern Industry with our backwardness." back-wardness." True, we could have used the 3,000,000,000 rubles of foreign exchange ex-change which we raised by the most rigid economy and which was expended ex-pended by our Industry to Import raw materials and permit greater production of articles of general consumption. But that would not have given us metallurgy, the machine-building Industry, tractors, automobiles, au-tomobiles, airplanes and tanks. |