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Guardian Century, UK
Saturday January 23, 1932
Instructions by the Soviet Premier, Mr. Molotoff, and head of the State
Planning Commission, Mr. Kuibisheff, for the second Five-year Plan were
published to-day.
They indicate that between 1933 and 1937 the Soviet Union expects to
increase its industrial output threefold. It is specifically emphasised that
individual consumption of food and manufactured goods will increase two or
three times, so that the hardship of the first Five-year Plan will not,
presumably, be repeated.
The plan envisages the intensive development of machine-building with the
object of freeing Russia from dependence on foreign machines for its
industry, agriculture, and transport, and the basic reconstruction of the
railroad transport system. The collectivisation of agriculture will be
completed under this plan, and much attention will be paid to the
development of stock-breeding.
While the new plan proposes sweeping progress, its figures for some branches
of industry are much less ambitious than was suggested last summer. The
deterioration of world trade, the credit situation, and the failure to
realise last year's ambitious programme of industrial output have, perhaps,
induced the framer of the present plan to adopt a more modest line.
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