The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-27
BY v. MOLOTOV.
PART 2.

1.-The Results Of the First Five-Ye Plan.
You know, comrades, that the Party submitted
two variants Of the Five-YeaT Plan, the initial
variant" and the optmal variant" The optimal
variant, according to the view of the State Plan
ming Commission for the Soviet Union was cal
culated for more favorable conditions The
Party adopted as its basis the optinal variant
/. e., the Plan with the greater economic tasks
1t is this optinnal Five-Year Plan, calculated on
favorable conditions, that we are now carrying
out. 1t is an achievement of the Party that
the slogan set up by the masses themselves of
"Five-Year Plan in four years" is being success
fully carried out We are realizing the before
mentioned optinal variant of the Five-Year
Plan not in five years, as was originally anti
cipated, but in four years, that is to say, we
are shortening the period for the carrying out
OF the Five-Year Plan in its optimal CnighesD
variant by a fifth
The successes of the first Five Year Plan are
successes of the industrialization policy, and
therefore of the policy of promoting heavy in
dustry, above all the production of the means of
production. These successes are characterized
by the fact that we now have a basis for COM
plotting the technical reconstruction of the whole
Of the national economy This fact is Of de-
cisve Importance for the further growth of So
cialism in the Soviet Union
also expressed in the extraordinary successes of
collectivization, in the setting up of collective
farms and Soviet farms In our backward vii
lagos, which only yesterday were split up into
many tiny farms, we are building up big So
cialist farms on the basis of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
We have already reached a situation in which
the socialist forms occupy a dominating posi-
ton also in agriculture The most difficult and
most important task Of the proetarian revolu-
ton has thereby been solved Great and down
right magnificent as the tasks of the second
Five-Year Plan may be, it must not be forgotten
that after the october upheaval the most diff
fcult task consisted in the Transformation OF
agriculture the basis of collectivism and high
ly developed machine-techniqu 1t is precisely
this task that the Party has fulfilled and is
fulfilling successfully, and there can be no doubt
that colectivization will in the main be COM
pleted in the year 1928
All this has enabled our Party to declare that
the fundamental feminist question who will
beat whom has been decided against capitalism
and in favor of socialism. This is the most I'M
portant result not only of the economic but also
of the political development in the past period.
One cannot help seeing that not everything
during these years has followed the exact out
lines of our Plan. The Party made changes In
the first Five-Year Plan not only in regard to
single years but also the whole period.
I will give few examples. In the Five Year
Plan, for instance, it was not estimated that
unemployment would be completely abolished at
the end of the Five Years. True, the Five-Year
Plan anticipated that there would be q tremen-
dous diminution of unemployment but at that
time, at the moment the Plan was adopted, it
was impossible to foresee that unemployment In
the Soviet Union would be liquidated already
in the year 1930-31. As you see, we have slightly
.iyceeded our planned estimate, but it is to be