Word: lubimov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country with slogans reading: "Life is getting better! Life is getting merrier!" Last week the Soviet official chiefly responsible for fulfilling the current plan, Commissar of Light Industry I. E. Lubimov, got sore...
...Conditions at numerous plants are so bad I cannot wait for improvement!" be.lowed Comrade Lubimov at a Moscow congress of Soviet factory managers. "I find many factories letting all the workers go on vacation at once-thus halting production-and in many cases where vacations were not granted when, the workers wanted them they have simply gone off and played truant. Inadequate managers will be immediately discharged...
...result of workers' truancy this quarter's planned production of Soviet textiles is 49,000,000 metres behind the Plan, according to irate Commissar Lubimov; flax textiles are 27,000,000 metres behind; and Russia is without 800,000 planned pairs of socks & stockings...
...Soviet Union, Chief Delegate Isidore Lubimov stated that Russia is committed to the Five-Year Plan, that the plan lays down a progressively larger wheat acreage each year, that Russia cannot therefore reduce her acreage, and finally that she fears no Capitalist wheat nation's competition. Reason: She is convinced that her Communist wheat farms can grow wheat cheaper than it can be grown elsewhere. Therefore she can meet and beat all wheat competition-unless the Five-Year Plan breaks down...
...moral side, Russia's Lubimov pointed out that Tsarist Russia exported nearly twice as much wheat as her nearest competitor, and that no one called this morally wrong. Today Soviet Russia cannot by the wildest excess of dumping export as much wheat as her largest competitor, which, of course, is Canada.* Therefore, in Moscow's view, whatever Soviet Russia does or can do in the way of wheat exportation, she will be not less, but more generous to her competitors than Tsarist Russia...