The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
The Basic Tasks of the Second
5-Year Plan

THE three years Of the first Five-Year Plan
were the years Of the stubborn and insistent
struggle Of the proletariat of the U. S. S. r.
for the laying Of the foundation of Socialist
economics This task has been fulfilled under
the leadership of the Communist Party and
thus, the execution of the first Five-Year Plan
In four years was insured
During the first three years the tasks of the
Five-Year Plan for each year were overfulfilled:
In 1929 by per cent, in 1880 by per cent, in
1881 by 10 per cent. In some most important
industries, the Five-Year Plan was fulfilled and
overfulfilled in 212-3 years Qhe oil industry,
electro-technical industry, engineering, etc).
The following fact has been the basic result
on the field of the Socialist characterization:
Heavy industry has been built up in the UssR
and thus, our own base for the completion of
the reconstruction of the entire national eco
nony, the base of the Socialist large scale
mechanical industry has been created" (From
the resolution on the reports Of Comrades Molo-
toy and Kuibyshev).
A great victory has been won during the first
three years of the Five-Year Plan on the field
OF the Sterilization of agriculture. In this do
main, the Five-Year Plan was over-fulfilled sew
eral times, as regards the number of the collec-
TWEED households and the size of the sowing
area Of the collective farms
SiXty-tWo per cent Of the middle and poor
peasants holdings incorporated in the collective
farms, the thorough collectivization and the
liquidation Of the kulaks as class has been in
the main completed in the basic grain regions
In other regions this will be carried out during
1928. In 1881, the sowing area of the private
individual holdings amounted to one-fifth only,
and the collective farms had four fifths OF the
general sowing area.
The turn of the middle and poor peasant
masses towards Socialism towards the way of
the Specialization of agriculture insured in the
countryside as well the solution of Lenin's ques-
ton, who beats whom'-in favor of Socialism
against capitalism. This means that the VIC
tory of Socialism has been definitely secured in
the countryside, and that one of the most diff
ficult tasks Of the construction of Socialism in
the country of Soviets has been solved.
The solution of this task means the final up
roofing of capitalism in the countryside deter
mining the entire liquidation of the capitalist
elements and the full abolition of classes"
The proletariat achieved such victories on the
front Of Socialist construction by means of wag-
ing relentless class struggle against the enc
mics of the Ffve-Year Plan, against the Kulaks
against the capitalist elements in general,
against the wreckers. These victories have been
won, thanks to the ruthless struggle against the
opportunists within the Party and against the
allies of counter Trotzkyism
The successful execution of the first Five-Year
Plan the fact that it was carried out in four
years is the basis on which the directives of the
Party on the drawing up of the second Five
Year Plan we're given, the directives adopted by
the XVII Conference of the CPSU.
The second Five-Year Plan is the plan of the