Evening star., 1946-02-10

but also, and in particular, be.
cause it gave the change Of COW
ering the whole country-within
a few years-with . net Of large
scale collective farms.
Without collectivization we
would not have been able to
eliminate the age-old backward
ness Of our agriculture in so
short q period Of time. It can
not be said that the party,s poll
icy did not meet with resistance
in this respect. Not only back
ward people, who always resist
everything new, but also many
others Of the party systematical-
ly held back the party and tried
in all sorts Of ways to drag 1t on
to the usual capitalist line of de-
velopment.
All this was Vaccinations Of
Troskyites and Rightists, all this
was work Of participating in
the shortage of the measures Of
our Government % few words
missing.
Material Conditions Used
To Increase War Output.
The further merit Of the par
ty consists In the fact 1t was
not sleeping over the chestnuts"
and was following the road it
once entered.
1t did not adjust itself to the
stragglers and at all times kept
It's leadership.
There can be no doubt that
only thanks to this frmness and
credit did the Communist party
come out on top, not only in In
dustralization but in the collec-
tivization of agriculture as we'll.
The question now arises, was
the Communist Party able to
utilize correctly all these ma
terial conditions to increase war
production and to supply the
Red army with the necessary
equipment. I think that it was
able to do so, and to do so with
the maximum success. If one
does not count the flrst year Of
the war, when the transfer Of the
industry to the East retarded the
full swing Of mass production,
then, in the course of the three
main years Of the war, the party
was able to achieve successes
which gave it the possibility not
only to supply the front with suf-
ficient quantities OF artillery, ma
chine guns, rifles, planes, tanks
(some words inaudible) our equip
ment being not only not inferior
in quality to the German but on
the whole being superior to the
German.
Our tank industry in the last
three years at least produced on
the average over 10000 tanks,
self-propelled guns and armored
cars per year. 1t is also known
that our aircraft industry pro-
duced in the same period about
10000 planes per year. 1t is also
known that our artillery industry
produced annually in the same
period about 10000 guns Of all
calibers, about 450,0 light and
heavy machine guns, over $780,
900 rifles and about 2,000, 900 au-
tomato rifles.
It Is also known that our NOR
tar industry In the period 1942-
A produced on the average about
100000 mortars per year. 1t is
obvious that in the same time a
corresponding quantity of artil-
lery shells, various kinds of mines,
air bombs and rifle and machine
gun ammunition was also pro-
duced.
o It is known that in one year of
1914 alone over 240, 900, 900 shells,
bombs and mines were produced
and over 7,4oo, ,ooo, 900 cartridges.
Army Had Necessary Reserves
OF Food and Uniforms.
Such is the general picture Of
the supplies for the Red Army in
regard to equipment and ammu-
milton. AS YOU see, 1t does not
resemble the picture which the
supplies Of our armies presented
during the First World War,
when the front experienced
chronic shortage Of artillery and
shells, when the army fought
without tanks, and when one rife
was issued for every three soldiers.
AS regards supplying the Red
Army with food and uniforms, it
Is generally known that the front