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...personal experience, still vividly remembered, may throw some light on the difficulty of obtaining objective information when conversing with Russians through an official Soviet interpreter. I visited the Cheliabinsk tractor factory as a journalist in 1932. Finding that some of the workers were under prison sentence, I asked several what their offenses had been. A peasant said he had been condemned as a counter-revolutionary because he complained at a collective farm meeting that there was not enough to eat. A worker said he had accidentally damaged a machine, and was promptly condemned to forced labor for "sabotage...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Since Stalin & staff have put so much heart and effort directly into Molotov, last week's official breakdown might be called the first major blow to the prestige of the Five-Year Plan. Much larger than Molotov is Cheliabinsk, the newly-opened "world's largest tractor plant." When it was announced last week that Cheliabinsk "has produced nothing except experimental machines," knowing Russians merely shrugged. At Cheliabinsk such a breakdown was to be expected, at Molotov...
Officially the Soviet newspaper Za Indistrializatsia! ("For Industrialization! ) said of Cheliabinsk...
...Engineers (who have excavated 600,000 cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
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