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ably increase the output of this ‘‘Fraternity”’
system. The advantage consists in the fact
that the line from Orenburg to the western ~
frontier of the USSR can be connected to
existing pipes near Ushgorod,-leading to the
fraternal countries.

The over-all length of the gas pipeline
from Orenburg to the western frontier of ©
the USSR is 1708 miles with the pipes having

’ a diameter of 55.9 feet. After completion, 22 :
pumping stations on Soviet territory will - —& Lara é
deliver about 530 billion cubic feet of gas Se
from the USSR to the other Européan CMEA
countries every year.

The GDR’s section begins at’ the east
bank of the Dnieper (9/10 mile broad) and*
then runs in the direction of the western
frontier of the USSR for 342 miles to the
town of Bar. The linear part of the gas pipe-
line. proper is 322 miles long. Moreover,
motor highways, 10 railway lines; swamps,
smaller and larger underground rivers and
glens will have to be traversed, two hundred
hectares of woods cleared, 706 million cubic
feet of earth moved and 400,000 tons of steel
pipes laid. All necessary operation facilities
as well as blocks of flats, social-welfare,
catering and cultural establishments will be ~
erected.

One of the youths who will work on the
pipeline is assembly worker Lutz Grobe of
the nationally owned Power Plant Construc-
tion Works in Sangerhausen. He said, “Oren-
-burg—that is a task in which one can show
what one is able to accomplish. Very interest- ~
ing from the technical point of view and
above all—a tremendous joint venture of
socialist integration. Doing good work will
be a must. I would also brush up on my know-
ledge of Russian there.”’

Another youth is Hans-Georg Ludwig, 21,

a welder and FDJ group secretary in the
Schonebeck Tractor Works. ““That is an
adventure of our type,”’ he said. “It is a great
cause, integration in a highly practical way!
And above all, it is a genuine proof of the ~
confidence: the party of the working class
places in us members of the Free German

~ Youth.”’

One final note: the GDR’s building section
will lead through the Ukraine, where the lib-
eration struggle of the Red Army against
the fascist invaders raged around the impor-
tant Dnieper line in the summer of 1944. In
the spring of 1975, 30 years after the libera-
tion of the German people from fascism and
war, young socialists from the GDR and the
USSR will be united in joint work here and
will be filled with the same spirit: Young
People from the Soviet Union, the GDR and

‘the other fraternal countries will move moun-
tains in the truest sense of the word and build
a line of friendship which will help pave the
joint road to communism. ;

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On October 7, 1949,
when the GDR was
established, youth
rpomised, with their
~ torchlight procession
to build the young
state. On October 7,
1974, the youth re-
newed their pledge
in this procession in
which the Orenburg
workers marched. —

Lutze Grobe: (right) and other workers from the Nationally
-Owned Power Plant Construction Works in Sangerhausen who
—Panorama DDR -will work on the pipeline. :

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