The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28
WHAT MAKES THE SOVIETS
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Ukraine, the bread-basket of Eur
ope, is lost yet the Red army is adj
yancing; Leningrad, surrounded and
starving, still producing finished mar
BILE for the Moscow subway; Kriyoi
Rog, steel center of old-time-Russia.
almost destroyed and miraculously
appearing in new form at Magnito-
gorsk; there is Kharkov, once the
Pittsburg of modern Russia over-run
by most ruthless enemy, but spring
ing up like a Mushroom in Magnito-
gorsk; as climax and most heart
rending of all is the Dnieper dam,
blown up but resurrected in Kniby-
shev.
Anticipating the second World war,
Moscow wisely temporarily bolted
most of its European industrial plants
to their foundations in such a way
that they could be easily removed in
case of need. Thus, while the
Dnieper plant with it's 100000 kilo-
watts capacity was the largest of its
kind in existence at the time, the
Greater Volga project, when finished,
will produce the enormous total of
100000 kilowatts.
Modern Improvements
When whole machine industries
were transferred from Leningrad into
the interior, technical staff and all,
they would generally be in full pro-
duction in three months and double
pre-war production in six months
time. 1t used to take 10000 miners
to mine the ore for the Krivoi Rog
steel industries in contrast to the
2 1000 miners at Magnitogorsk getting
out larger amount on account of
modern equipment. Everything is
electrified and one man alone, sitting
in tower throws the switch, spots
and dumps a car of ore in furnace
every seven minutes night and day.
In 1928 not a house was there and
low it's the biggest industrial center
n the Eastern hemisphere
Arithmetic Upset
By ordinary arithmetic and ortho-
iox reasoning, the Soviet economy
ind Red army should have completely
)roke down under the terrific pound
ng received during the early part of
he invasion: Russia's old bread-bas-
ret lost the mineral of the Ukraine
md the coal of the Donets basin in
he hands of the enemy, compelling
he women of Moscow to go into the
woods telling trees for their winter
uel while the children attended
chool with mittens on in unheated
ooms for oral lessons
Not only did heavy industry shift
nto Siberia but the break-basket did
S we'll, the Kara Kun desert was
urned into a semi-tropical garden
pot by using the trench system and
uilding canals for irrigating sandy
oil where the deadly sirocco winds
ED sway The grainbelt limit was
loved a hundred miles farther north
Y vernalizing the seed before plant
lg and better treatment of the
oil with the aid of modern machin-
~.
The morale of the fighting forces
III ClVlllduS alike, DOIH young ana
d was extraordinary high because
ley had something to fight for and
new exactly what that something
as. Soviet victories was not at
ined simply from lend-lease aid nor
ON the doctors splendid work on
God plasma, it was neither just the
ork of the army alone but the sum
tai of all factors combined working
perfect coordination.
The Soviets fought World Imperial
N at the Disarmament Conferences,
Spain and in the League of Nations
It failed. They kept their standard
living down to a minimum in order
build up their industries; the budg-
for national defense was. raised to
% of the national income in view
potential enemies and with the in
sion it assumed hundred per cent
doing this they saved the World
I'm going back to the Dark Ages
e the period of 1900 AID. to 1000
D. when the World was seething
tn intolerance and it's progress was
backward direction
A. E. ANDERSON.
tie, Mont, July %, 1914.