RUSSIA: First of Five

Just one year ago, Russia's famed "Man of Steel," Dictator Josef Stalin, inaugurated his drastic "Five Year Economic Program," an impressive scheme of industrial and agricultural expansion by which, by 1933, he proposed to make the Soviet Union entirely self-supporting and independent of the outside capitalistic world. Last week Dictator Stalin announced his budget for 1930, published figures which, if honest, showed astounding progress made during the first of his Five Years.

Russian industrial production and Russian factory wages have been increased, Stalin declared,...

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