RUSSIA: Five Years from Now

Grim, far-sighted Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili. known from Leningrad to Cape Horn as Stalin, last week told Russia what to do for the next five years. Dictator Stalin may change his mind, but barring a national catastrophe or acts of God (in whom he does not believe; Russia will do as he says.

What Stalin did last week was twofold: 1) He announced the program for 1932, fourth year of the first Piatiletka (FiveYear Plan). By the end of this year the first Five-Year Plan will have been...

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