The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-15
SOVIET PLANS
 ANOTHER DRIVE OF FIVE YEARS
Plots Chartered for New Piatiletka By Rus=
 sian Leaders
By EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff COrrcsyOndent.)

United Press Stan Corrcspondent.)
 Moscow.-With the first Piatil- etka, or Five-yearPlan, at its apex, a second and more exacting pro- gram Is already on the horizon. The vast Soviet population must adj just itself to the realization that the pot of gold Is at least one more fivc-year period away.
 Commissions have been set up to plot new charts of industrial progress to assure q favorable issue to Joseph Stalin's bold warning: We must overtake and Outstrip the most advanced capitalist na- tions in ten years, Or we will be crushed!"
 Everything Is being tuned to a. continuation of the high speed.
 Of course no one but political illiterates expected the Five-year Plan to achieve the miracle of sud- denly turning a primitive, half starved country into comfortable and prosperous place. To the thinking minority 1t was clear that the first five years would not pro- duce the industriallzed nation en- visioned by the Kremlin.
 Popular Appeal
 But much of the popular appeal of the Piatiletka, and of the slogan "rhe Five-year Plan in Four Years," lay precisely in the def initeness and brevity of the period. It promised a comfortable way station. It set a term upon suffer- ing.
 Naive as this may sound. 1t was an underlying conviction fostered by the whole tenor of the official propaganda. For millions of Rus sians 1t Is still fact.
 It is not an easy thing, there fore, for the Soviet Union to face a Second Fivc-year Plan. The powers that be have begun years in advance to accustom the nation to It's approach.
 The Kremlin doubtless realizes the importance of declaring div idend on its promises. Some pal pablo Improvements in living con- ditions, even if only temporary, must and probably will be forth coming coincident with the an nouncement of the completion of the Five-year Plan.
 National Wealth Involved
 It is already apparent, however, luhL tIlC dih ShN country is working cannot be re- faxed. Too much of the national wealth will have been invested in half-bullt industries, in great in- dustrial complexes ready for oper- ation, but not yet functioning fully. to permit any let-up. The trend of policy clearly Is towards tying the worker closer to his job and get ting more production.
 The minority to whom Commu- nism is flath and the sturdy youth which grew up since the revolu- ton, greet the Second Piatiletka with jubilation. For them 1t is an- other instalmcnt of war. with its chances for glory and victory.
 There is another element in the population which looks upon the approaching Second Five-year Plan with equanimity, and 1t is q much larger element than Soviet leaders care to admit publicly. It consists of those who arc dislllusioncd and passive-those with little faith in the Soviet slogans.
 For the ordinary Russian, his hopes consciously or unconsciously pinned to 1883, the postponement to 1898 will be a bitter pill. Un- like the faithful Communist, he does not judge the present in terms of historical perspective. He gets more satisfaction from increase in his butter or sugar ration. than from contemplation of the distant socialist future.
 The time has arrived when the Soviet millions must realize that time cannot be split up into pieces, except for advertising or propa- ganda purposes. The job upon which they are engaged will not end at tho conclusion of any four, or five, or even 10 year term. It is q continuous process. Tho Sec ond Five-ycar Plan is the cruel but unavoidable instrument whereby this realization will be forced upon them.
 For the generation which went through the reconstruction period and the beginning of the first Five year Plan there is little ahead ex- cept a prolongation of the martyr dom. If there is any harvest after this bitter sowing, 1t will be reaped by q new generation now matur- ing.
 It Is to the new generation, therefore, that the Soviet regime is directing It's appeal as the Second Five-ycar Plan is being prepared. It has been educated to accept the gospel of Marx. as interpreted by Lenin and Stalin, as the only faith. The Communist youth organization gained million members in the first five months in 1881 and is pledged to swell its ranks another 1.500,0O0 in the next few months, bringing the total to 5,500.O0O. They represent n great reservoir of strength and sacrifice upon which the years ahead will draw heavily and unceasingly.
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