The rst thing he would place be~ fore them was the recent industrial changes In the Soviet Union. 'The: Increase in productive capacity was not only the result of the increased number of workers in mills and factories, but also the result of the inerense' In the productive capacity the workers, 'The greatest pro? Jem faced during the time of the Five Year Plan was the comparative ly low productive capacity' of the workers who at that time had not yet mastered the operation of the shew and complicated machines, That dimeulty was now over.
'Two important tendencies were the rapid development of industry, result. ing in the immense growth' of the economic and political importance of the country, and the rapid growth in the productive capacities of every Worker and peasant, which presup+ posed the progress in their cultural and technical development, "The third decisive. factor was. a. colossal growth of the so-called "socialist sector" ju national economy; this "socialist sector" comprised those branches of national economy which were developed on a social basis.
In 1935, 97.8 per cent. of the whole agricultural production came from the socialist sector and 2.2 per cent, from individual peasant, directly opposite to the 1924 figures. This fact was of very great political significnee, changing the psychology of the peasant masses decisively in favour: of socialism. To-day, the superiority of the socialist method in agri-allure had been proved to them by 200,000 tractors workings in the fields of the Soviet Union and by the raise Ing of their standard of living.
With regard {o Slalin's Constitu. tion, as it" was called, they were materialists, believing that the being determined' the consciousness and that external surroundings played, decisive role in the creation of' 2 personality; at the same time, they believed that great personalities embodied in themselves the aspirations of a certain part of the soclely of a certain nation and of a certain class, In Stalin, az in Lenin, were embodied the aspirations and' hopes of the: working class and all peoples of the Union, and these were to be found in the new Stalinist Constitution, duets that all the needs of everybody can be satisfied and when everybody will consider his labour for society hot as an obligation but as a pleasure," went on Mr. Bogomolov. "It Is clear that until that stage of economic and cultural development is Teached, it is Idle talk to speak about. the distribution of products accord-Ing to the needs of everybody."
was paid to the development of the his was why so much importance Stakhanoft movement; Stakhanoff succeeded in rationalizing his work 80 that his production increased tremendously during the same sovenhour day. The success of this movement yave them the assurance that some day the Communist order would become a reality.
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