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STATESMEN who hate the So-
viet Union seem. to be playing
different tunes these days. But
there’s one thing you can say about
the music of Hoover, Churchill,
Iles and the rest. Their screech-
ing shows that nowadays they hate
the socialist world in a new way.
hate its success. I can well
appreciate this new hatred of theirs.
y tour of the Soviet Union
rought home to me a profound
truthe Socialiym has been more
Successful. since the war. than its
best friends an other countries
dreamed it could be.

The anti-Soviet plotters today
Sellow about mighty Soviet tanks
Superb Soviet planes, fleets of So-
Viet submarines, but this frantic
Speech-making about the military
Power of socialism hides .some-
thing they dare not confess in
Public.

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Socialism is victorious in peace
43 it was in war.

Soviet tanks are the best be-
Cause Sovie; industrial steel is the
Dest. Soviet automobiles are the
best, too, as I found to my sur-
Prise. Soviet agriculture is far
in advance of America’s. I saw
with my own eyes that American
‘harvesters can’t be used on So-
viet farm fields now, because the
crops grown by socialist methods

. *re too heavy for them to handle.

If Canadian and American
Scientists are gloomy over the
failure of their military vehicles

and clothing and radar up in our _

North; they must know that in the
farthest Soviet Arctic there are
Magnificient cities with busses,

trucks, cars, with mines, factories,.

°pera theatres, with orchards’ of
fine fruit and endless fields of
Lysenko winter wheat immune to

early frosts.

I think the sight of Soviet elec-
tric power hurts the Yankees most
of all. How they grinned over the
ruins of Dnieper Dam! That was
in 1945,
Plants produce 90 percent more
electricity than before the war.
Millions of Soviet farmers for the
first time have electric lights. In
the fields, they drive electric trac-
tors to be found on no other land
in the world.

Now the two new plants on the

Volga are going to deliver more |
hydro power, than all the giant
dams built in Ontario in’ the 50
Years since hydro was born at

Niagara, The elettrification of

Today Soviet power

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a part of socialism today, and
that part is getting smaller and
smaller, as the peaceful building
of socialism rises higher and high-
er above anything the capitalist
world can do.

Let us start with a fact that is
almost a miracle. Soviet factories,
railways, mines and power plants
were destroyed by the Nazis on a
scale measured in hundreds of bil-
lions of dollars, Wall Street count-
ed on socialism taking 10 to 15
years to restore these things to
their 1940 condition. But in five
years everything has been restor-
ed. So great is the scale of new
building that Soviet industry now
exceeds its pre-war output by 70
percent.

How about capitalist America?
In the last five years American
production has never risen any-
where near its wartime peak, even
though America suffered not a
bomb, not a scratch.

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By DYSON CARTER

After» the war Americans sat
back and boasted they had so
much coal, oil and electric power
that the devastated Soviet Union
would never catch up. But this
5-Year Plan put Soviet coal mines
far ahead of German and British.
With the most advanced mining
machinery in the world they’ll
soon overtake America. As for
oil,, while the capitalist world gets
ready for rationing again, the so-
cialist peoples get more fuel of
all kinds every month.

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Odds are that a Canadian fac-
tory worker would ponder most
over one fact of Soviet life. Under
socialism, as production goes up
wages also go up and prices go
down.

Born under capitalism we can’t
see how prices can fall if wages
rise. To socialist people it’s only
common sense. “The more goods
we make, the higher wages we're
paid, and prices are lowered so we
can buy everything we make.”

That is socialist prosperity.
Every year wages rise, prices fall.
more goods of all kinds are bought
by the people and unemployment
can’t ever haunt any citizen. ' If
sickness comes, the socialist sys-
tem treats you as a human being,
more valuable than any machine.
When old age comes, you are the
guest of the whole nation.

What the Plan has spent on
medical research, on hospitals,
sanatoriums and rest homes for

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the USSR is going ahead in
breath-taking leaps.

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You can’t out-produce America
by using “slave labor.” Soviet
workers, trained by the hundreds
of thousands every year in mag-
nificent schools, are using count-
less new electric machines and
producing 40 percent more goods
per hour than they were when
the Plan started. The lies of the
anti-Soviet morons are back-fir-
ing.

Why, evenasthey picture the
“vast Soviet military machine”
getting ready to “roll over Eur-
ope,” what is actually happening?
Vast Soviet armies of engineers
and skilled workers, driving the
greatest diggers, pumpers and
paving-machines: ever built, are
rolling over a desert nearly as big
as Sahara, In the Kari Kum, they
are digging a canal four times
longer than the Suez and Panama
canals put together. On the water-
ed desert farmers with all-electric
equipment will grow grain on 20
million new acres,

While the magazines here try to
thrill us with a new self-defrost-
ing ice-box, Soviet papers report
how the Plan is defrosting the Far
North, cooling the climate in the
South; and on the arid steppes
making rain with new forests.

In 1950, Soviet farmers brought
in 4,000 million bushels of grain.
No wonder British women, after a
long Soviet trip this autumn, told
the London papers: “Soviet work-
ers are infinitely .better fed than
their counterparts in Britain.”

Soviet food is of highest quality
and the people have money to buy
it. If they still don’t have much
fresh beef, they have plenty of de-
licious fish that we can’t afford
cver here. If they rarely see lamb
chops, they can stuff themselves
with the same kind of caviar that

New York millionaires eat, — If.

they don’t have synthetic drinks
like Coco-Cola, they do eat more

' ice cream than any other people

on earth,

With a snarl, the New York
Times has to admit today that
official Soviet figures on produc-
tion and sales must be correct.
Foreign “correspondents” just

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can’t lie convincingly any more.

Are meat sales really up 35 per-
cent? Just look at the new So-
viet meat shops and the crowds of
buyers. Are people buying 60 per-
cent more butter? A glance at
any Soviét dairy shop will prove —
it. Has the Plan given 200,000,-
000 Soviet citizens more good
shoes, suits, dresses and stockings
than ever before? All you have
to do is compare any Soviet crowd
with a’ photo of a similar group
in the past. Or with the shabby,
pale, undernourished people of
France and England. :
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This month the world will dis-
cover how tremendous is the vic-
tory of peaceful socialism. The

-first 5-Year Plan since the war is

coming to a close. This Plan has
changed the course of history, We
Canadians much grasp this. . We

‘must, because if we think only of

Soviet tanks, planes and_ sub-
marines we will choke our minds
on war propagandaxand miss the
greatest lesson of our time.

The fact is: Soviet defense pre-
parations, though large, are only

We're told the Soviet Union
pours everything into war ma-
chines, so we must do the same.
But right now the Soviet people
are making more railway cars
than America can. The Yankees

/ are sharply cutting auto produc-

tion, to put the steel and motors
into tanks, Soviet auto output has
shot up 500 percent in the last two
years, and the Plan calls for still
faster expansion.

The Yankee diplomats in Mos-
cow can see on streets and high-
ways more 1950 Soviet cars fae
all earlier models! .

It’s a long time since New York ‘

built its last skyscraper, All over
Moscow today you see magnificent
new high buildings going up. Such
buildings take tremendous quan-
tities of steel. So, if the anti-
Soviet experts believe the Soviet
Union is making more tanks, guns
and warships than anyone else,
they also have to believe what
they can see. Socialism has lots
of everything left over for peace-
ful construction! And that is
something for the United States
Steel Corporation to ponder.

DYSON CARTER

News-Facts on the USSR

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guide about life in the Sov-
iet Union, the handy and _ at-
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seeking an antidote for the
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 12, 1951 —

young and old, can be measured in
money. It is more than America
has spent on atom bombs. With
my. own eyes I saw what this
money has bought.

The Soviet people have built for
themselves in the last five years
facilities for health and security
the like of which no other nation
has, the things our best doctors
have dreamed about for genera-
tions,

“All this may be true,” a young
Canadian teacher said to be. “But
people will never velieve it. The
rest of the world thinks it’s all a
lie.”

Well, we have a lesson to learn
from that remark, Maybe we Can-
adians have soaked up some of
the Yankees’ poinsonous egotism,
Even progressives must learn that
“the rest of the world” is no longer
North America. If many people
here think socialism is a lie, hun-
dreds of millions in other lands
know socialism is true.

My wife and I saw the Soviet
Union not only with the eyes of
Canadians. In Soviet cities and
farms we met English visitors,
and. French, Italians, Germans,
Indians, Burmese, Czechs, Arabs,
African Negroes. Often we talked
with them. While we were com-
paring socialism with rich Ameri-
ca these other people were com-
paring’ the achievements of the
5-Year Plan with life in their own
countries,

“What the Soviet people have
done, we can do! Now we have
seen what socialism can do!” We
must have heard those remarks in
ten languages.

And those visitors, from all over
the earth, represent the rest of
the’ world, Hundreds of delega-
tions are touring the Soviet Union
all the time. The great majority
of mankind is rapidly discover-
ing what the victory of socialism
means.

Not the tanks of the Red Army, __

but the achievements of the 5-
Year Plan, are rolling over all
borders, liberating the masses
from fear of the boss and the A-
bomb, inspiring mankind with the
knowledge ‘that there is a sure-
way to the future of peace ae
prosperous lift.

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