The chronicle., 1963-12-12
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+. BY PHIL NEWSOM
4. UPI Foreign News Analyst

klta khruShchev, the Soviet I'M
ion has had but one standard
of comparison, the United
States.
For the people Of the Is So
Wet republics, living on broken
promises, it has been a tragedy.
For Khrushchev, first secretary
of the Communist party since
1858 and premier since 1858, it
has been an example of personal
indeStructibility.
For example:
On July 80, 1861, the Soviet
Communist party announced its
third program, a milestone in
the history of communism.
The first program had been
drawn up in 1903 and called for
''the overthrow Of the Czarist
autocracy'' and the establish
ment of the dictatorship of the
proletariat."
Socialist Society"
The second program, drawn
up by Lenin In 1919, had for its
goal the building of a Socialist
society,""
The third, drawn up under
Khrushchev, declared:
in the current decade 1851
1870 the Soviet Union will sur
pass the strongest and richest
capitalist country, the United
Safes, in production per head
of population; the peoples
standard of living and their cul-
tural and technical standards
will improve substantially .
hard physical work will disap-
pear
This week before 5000 men,
bers of the Soviet leadership in
the Kremlin Hall of Congresses,
Khrushchev gave his accounting
of failure.
Typically, his accounting con-
tanned no note Of personal fail
ure nor Of the fact that as he
personally guided the destiny of
Soviet agriculture he has seen
first mechanization as the cure
all for the ills of Soviet produc-
ton, then the opening of the
virgin lands and now, finally,
the massive use of fertilizer.
To bring this about he an
nounced a crash program to
more than triple the output of
the Soviet chemical industry in
the next seven years.
Two hundred new chemical
plants are to be built and 500
existing ones rebuilt.
But, again typical Of the
twists and turns of various So
Wet five, seven and 20-year
programs, the announcement
took no notice OF past failure.
Unprecedented" Plan
The Khrushchev announce
ment called the new plan "un-
precedented" and, among other
things, called for the production
by 1870 of 3.5 to 4 million tons
of plastics and synthetic resins,
a jump of six to seven times
over the present level.
Ignored was the fact that the
pie-in-the-sky program of 1861
called for more than S million
tons of plastics and synthetic
resins by 1870.
Ignored was the fact that the
pie-in-the-sky program Of 1861
called for more than 5 million
tons of plastics and synthetic
resins by 1870.
Khrushchev made special
note Of the claim that since the
death Of Josef Stain 10 years
ago, Soviet production Of meat
and milk has more than dou-
bled and the production of eggs
tripled. But he omitted to note
that most of this gain came
from the small private plots al
lotted to Soviet peasants for
their own use.
He also failed TO note that
while production was increas-
ing. so was the Soviet popula-
ton at the rate Of 3.5 million
per year.
With Soviet space accomplish
ments In mind, there is no dis
position to discount Soviet tech
nical ability. Rather, us. ex-
perts are inclined to attribute
Soviet failures to too much
haste and too little planning.
But it is easy to see why
Khrushchev, beset by problems
on every side, has need for
haste.