Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
FIVE-YEAR PLAN SPLITS SOVIET;
STAIN LASFfES PROGRAM ON
Early Red Leaders Exiled or Denoted
When Chief Grasped Reins to Drive
Country On-People Are Patient.

unprotected country has been carried
on in the midst OF Arctic winter.
Here and there men speak senten-
tiously about the "vlast", the authori-
ties. Yet there is pothing either poign-
ant or concrete in their grumbling.
desire that things may take a turn
for the better a little more quickly.
that the Five Year Plan was nearer
its goal and the load on their backs
lightened. There is no acid in their
complaints, no political significance.
The Soviet rulers have nothing to
fear from it-and they know 1t.
Yet there is chaos in Russia and the
atmosphere is electric with the dread
of failure. 1t Is among the leaders
that fear of disaster to the govern
ments gigantic construction program
and presentlment of a debacle are
Most acute. To get the full force of
this division among Soviet leaders over
the Five Year Plan, particularly over
the pace with which 1t Is conducted,
over its methods and so-called tempos
one need but scan the Soviet press for
the names Of the men connected with
the fashioning o. the Soviet state in its
earliest beginnings and note their alb
sence from present public life and the
complete yet diffident silence with
which mention of their names is
greeted.
Stain Rules Supreme.
Trotsky Kamenev Zinoviev, Buk-
harm, Rakcgsky. Tomsky, Rykov, not
to mention a host of lesser lights, all
are either in exile, in retirement, g.
are occupying comparatively unim-
portant posts. Disagreement with
Stain, not over ultimate aims but
n 10 70 yNoliriaa ho raSIlfaI tn THAR
political harakiri.
Lenin is claimed as the spiritual
father Of the Five Year Plan. but for
the pace and tempo with which it is
conducted Stain alone has made him.
self responsible.
1t is Stains grim and unalterable
conviction that at the end of six or
seven more years-a second Five Year
Plan is already under way to succeed
the first-he will be in position to ex-
hibit to the world a Russia that will
be not only one hundred per cent in
dustrialiZed. but one in which industry
and agriculture, trade and the pro
LESSONS will be completely run on
civil service basis-socialism is the
word he uses.
Doubted COuntry's Ability.
To make every peasant and work
man within the confines of the Soviet
Union as much of an employe Of the
community. Of the state. as a postman
is, or a tax collector, and. in special
circumstances. even a soldier, is an in
alienable part of the Stain program.
Rykov, Bukhayin Tomsky and their
followers do no. believe the country is
ripe for the titanic plunges Of the
Stain plan They would stretch the
industrialization OF Russia over at least
one generation. They have no faith
in the ability Of Russia to "overtake
and outstrip" such highly developed
indus rial countries as Germany, Eng
land and the United States in 10 years
or less, which is what Stain promises.
They fear manv Of the huge plants
being hastily constructed with the aid
of foreign engineers and materials. will
in a few years be idle. or half idle,
for want. among other things, Of
skilled, responsible Russian workers to
man them.
Farm Program Fought.
They disagree even more emphatically
with Stains whirlwind collectiviZa-
ton program in agriculture Rykov,
Bukharin and their associates of the
right opposition'-therei is also left
opposition" headed by Trotzkv but its
members do their opposing ei her in
prison or in exile-allege that the
forced collectivization tempos in the
villages are reducing large masses Of
Russian peasantry to an existence Dor
dering feudal vassalaRe.
Stains answer has been determined
and unbending His critics. themselves
veterans of the Russian revolution, have
been deprived Of their Offices. and their
places have been filled by younger men,
brought up in the rigid discipline of
the Communist party and trained to
carry out its mandates and policies
without question.
Plan to Prove Test.
In the Union Of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics formerly Russia, only two heads
loom from the pages of the press. on
the walls Of public Offices, from post
ers and in school books. One is the
sardonic head of the dead Lenin: the
other. the brooding face of his recluse-
like successor. Joseph Stain.
Lenins place in history Is fixed
Whether Stain is to prove the epochal
figure which his adherents say he is
will be determined entirely by the de-
gree Of success the Five Year Plan
meets.
It may as well be stated first as last
that no industrial. political or social
project which comes from the Commu-
mist party of RuSsia-and the Com
munist party is in control of the gov
eminent in the Soviet Union-can ever
be wholly free from propaganda. The
Five Year Plan is conducted with q
great deal Of fanfare and theatricality
designed to impress a lean. If patient.
peaSantry at home and q jealous and
very impatient Communist following
abroad.
Nevertheless it would be not only