Many an honest Communist believes the dogma that Russians attained the goals of their First Five-Year Plan (1928-32), are now attaining the goals of their Second (1933-37). Last week the Moscow censor passed certain statistics, pertinent though belated.
In the following much-publicized star turns of the First Five-Year Plan, the official record stands thus:
Steel: The revised First Five-Year Plan goal of 19,500,000 tons yearly in 1932-33 has not yet been attained. For 1934 production reached 9,600,000.
Motor vehicles: The Plan called for 175,000 tractors, 250,000 cars yearly. In 1934 (again two years late)...
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