Word: gosplan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economically Screwy. The Russians, said MacRae, "did us really proud" in setting up interviews on economic problems, but they growled nyet to requests for a tour of Moscow's auto factory, a visit to Kazakhstan's troubled "virgin lands" program, a trip to Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). "At Gosplan," said MacRae, "they were deliberately stonewalling us on some questions. We could see some of the younger Russians growing restive when they had to sit and listen silently to the older men give us evasive answers...
Khrushchev also drastically reduced the powers of Gosplan, the government planning body that he blames for most of Russia's economic failures, and established a new agency, the Council of the National Economy, headed by Economic Boss Veniamin E. Dymshits. Khrushchev also set up a new national construction monopoly designed to eliminate the squandering of money and labor in regional building projects. Almost equally wasteful, complained Khrushchev, are bribery and theft by "leading officials," who stole $61 million in money and materials during the first six months of the year. To fight such economic crimes, Khrushchev ordered the creation...