The Archive · 1939

Ambitious New Five-Year Plan

M. Stalin Denounces Totalitarian War Against)

Democracies; Russian Ukraine Remains Loyal Washington, Mar. 10.

HURRICANE of cheers greeted M. Josef Stalin and other igh Soviet officials today when they appeared at the opening session of the Eighteenth Communist Party Congress in the Kremlin. Marshal Klementii Voroshilov, Commissar for Defence, and other high Communist leaders heard the Premier, M. Viacheslav Molotov, inaugurate the Congress by outlining one of the most gigantic national development programmes in world history in the Third Five-Year Plan covering the years 1937 to 1942.

The opening session of the Congress, attended by 2,000 delegates from all sections of the country, indicated that its prime purpose would be to arouse national patriotism and rush completion of Soviet defence preparations.

Amendments liberalizing Soviet Jaw will be considered, but they are not expected to result in much change in the method of iron rule imposed on Russia by M, Stalin, Details of the Five-Year Plan a revealed by the Soviet Premier today included {ugh total by lad fo Teo percent.

Itncreasing ye atonal consume faking' the volume" et industria couiput 8 es) roubles $eaPan®increase of 8 per cent. over increasing the motor car output to output of leet oe" (By Skifowatt 1 the it output to $4,000.00]

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