Auto plani in once backward Udmurt.

How small nations
reach full growth

By P. SYSOEV |
President of Udmurt ASSR

IZHEVSK (APN) — In the
half century of its existence the
Udmurt Autonomous Soviet So-
cialist Republic has been trans-
formed from a former backward
outskirt of tsarist Russia into a
highly-developed socialist — re-
public with modern industries,
mechanized agriculture and ad-
vanced science and culture. But
its main wealth are its people
producing first-class industrial
goods, transforming agriculture
and advancing science, techno-
logy, culture and the arts.

Like other national minorities
in the former tsarist empire, the
people of Udmurtia, who live on
the western slopes of the mid-
dle Urals, had been doomed to
extinction. Poverty, diseases
and illiteracy were the people’s
lat.

Their economy was limited to
handicraft or semi-handicraft
enterprises and natural farming.
There were just two metal-
working plants—the remaining
“factories and plants” were
actually small handicraft shops.

At present Udmurtia is pro-
ducing in one shift the same
amount of industrial goods as
was produced during the whole
of 1913. The Republic’s enter-
prises produce  metal-cutting
lathes, steel, rolled goods, mo-
torcycles, rifles and sporting
guns, narrow-gauge Diesel loco-
motives, automobiles, reduction
gears, paper-making machines,
oil equipment, transistors and
radio-gramophones, gas stoves,
standard houses, knitwear and
footwear. More than 400 new
items of goods began to be pro-
duced in the past five years
alone. Over 50 countries are

buying over 100 items of com-
modities made in the republic.

In the past decade more than
30 industrial enterprises _ and
dozens of shops and production
units have been built. At pre-
sent the Republic’s biggest pro-
ject under construction is a
plant for producing compact
cars. The first section has alrea-
dy been put into commission. In
the next five years the motor
plant in Izhevsk will be work-
ing at full: capacity. :

Instead of 141,000 small in-
dividual holdings the republic
now has 282 collective farms,
80 state farms and five poultry
farms.

Almost all agricultural. jobs
are mechanized. Each collective
farm has 47 tractors on. the
average, 10 grain-harvesters and
many other farm machines at
their disposal. Electricity is now
supplied to them by a state

* power grid.

The republic now has 1,338
general schools, 26 vocational
schools, 24 specialized technical
schools and five higher educa-
tional establishments. As for
the number of students per 1000

of the population, Udmurtia is

ahead of Britain, France and
Western Germany.

There are more than 90,000
specialists with a secondary and
college education engaged in
the republic’s economy. The re-
public’s educational and re-
search institutions have on their
staff 18 doctors of sciences and
more than 360 masters of
sciences.

Udmurtia spends two-thirds
of her state budget on educa-
tion, health services, housing
and municipal needs, and on so-
cial welfare.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1971—PAGE 10

Sordid story of anti-Sovietism

Terrible cost to mankin

By JOHN WEIR
(Conclusion)

The published minutes of the
British War Cabinet and of the
U.S.-British Chiefs of Staff dur-
ing World War Two reveal that
in 1939-40, while officially at
war with Hitler Germany, the
rulers of Britain and France
were plotting and preparing a
war against the USSR and had
actually brought their countries
(and Canada, of course, which
tagged on to their tail all along)
to the brink of such a war,
which was to have been launch-
ed by sending 30,000 troops dis-
guised as “volunteers” to Fin-
land.

Canadians will remember this
as the period when a vicious
anti-Soviet campaign of propa-
ganda was launched here under
the pretext of sympathy for
“poor little Finland.” (The
Soviet Union acted to dismantle
the ‘“Mannerheim Line,” which
had been built as a launching
pad for attack on the USSR and
specifically Leningrad, after the
failure of all efforts to reach a
peaceful agreement for the re-
moval of this threat to its:sec-
urity.) Canadian soldiers were
being groomed for “volunteers
to help Finland.” Canadian anti-
fascists were being rounded up
and herded into internment
camps at Kananaskis and Peta-
wawa. The Communist Party of
Canada and other anti-fascist
organizations were outlawed,
workers’ newspapers closed, and
halls confiscated under the War
Measures Act.

All was “quiet on the Western
front” while the hounds of war
howled for a military “crusade”
to the East.

So the “phoney war” of 1939-
40 was no mystery. It followed
the phoney “peace talks” which
led to the war. Nor did it end
with the occupation of the Con-
tinent (in effect) by the fas-
cists, the replacement of Cham-
berlain by Churchill in Britain,
and the latter’s defiance of Hit-
ler. Great Britain was deter-
mined to defend itself from
Nazi invasion, but there were
many in the seats of power in
London who still hoped for a
deal with Hitler at the expense
of the Soviet Union. :

Was there a second period of
the “phoney war” until Hitler
ordered the invasion of the

USSR on June 22, 1941? The
German Staff did work on plans
for landing’ troops on British
soil, and later there was mas-
sive bombardment of British
cities by the Luftwaffe. These

were advanced as levers to com-
pel Britain to either come in as
a junior partner in. the planned
invasion of the Soviet Union or
at least to hold back from open-
ing a Second Front in the West
while German troops were lock-
ed in battle with Soviet forces
in the East.

Secret Feelers

Apart from the open pro-
nouncements of Hitler regard-
ing Britain, we now have the
evidence of secret negotiations
that were attempted during this
period prior to the attack on the
Soviet Union.

At one time Pope Piux XII,
and at another the King of
Sweden, were the intermediar-
ies in these negotiations. The
AP story, printed in the daily
papers of Jan. 2, 1971, says that
the overtures. were turned down
because the British War Cabinet
“thought it was a trick.” :

“In August, 1940,” the AP re-
port states, “King Gustav of
Sweden .wrote to King George
VI of Britain to mediate with
Hitler in secret. King George re-
jected the offer, and Mr. Chur-
chill wrote to the British Am-
bassador in Stockholm: ‘I might
add that the intrusion of the ig-
nominious King of Sweden as
a peacemaker after his deser-
tion of Finland and Norway is
singularly distasteful’.”

It is interesting to note that
Churchill turned down the offer

extended via the Swedish mon- -

arch on the grounds that the
latter had not gone along with
the plan to invade the USSR,
while the AP adds that “the real
purpose” of the troops to be
sent as “volunteers” was “to
seize Swedish iron ore deposits.”

A few days before the Ger-

- man onslaught on the USSR,

Hitler’s right-hand man, Rudolf
Hess, parachuted on British soil,
avowedly bringing a proposal
for a deal with Hitler. The pro-
posal wasn’t accepted, but Hess
didn’t suffer the hangman’s
noose as did other top Nazis...

Finest Hour
Churchill stood up in the
House of Commons and pro-
claimed Britain’s alliance with
the Soviet Union in the war
against Hitler aggression. This
was his second “finest hour’.
But did he expect the war to
take the course it did? The ex-
perts (have they ever been
right?) were talking of the
USSR collapsing in a matter of
weeks, of Hitler’s forces cutting
through -the Soviet lines “like a

knife through butter”.

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Truman stated that |
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