When the Sivesk Tractor Engine Repair Plant on the outskirts of Leningrad was formally inaugurated last February, it was heralded by government economic planners as one of the Soviet Union's finest industrial achievements. N.V. Bosenko, chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Technology of the Russian Republic, lavished praise on the executive responsible for the plant's construction. A year after the factory was officially in operation, Pravda called the plant "a thing of beauty, the largest in the industry, meeting the needs of all the collective and state farms of the Northwest." Raved the party newspaper: "Just look at the blueprints!...
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