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"THE history of mankind has never seen

anything remotely approaching the scale
of Russia’s Stalin Plan—the Constructions
for Communism.

It is already fully under way. Parts of
it will be completed next year. Parts will
take up to 15 years.

Look at the artist's impression of the
plan.. There are four main constructions:

Power stations

__The Volga, one of the world’s great-
est walterways, will be transformed.

New power stations at Stalingrad and
Kuibyshev will generate more power than
all the stations of Switzerland and Sweden
combined. They will be ithe largest hydro-
electric stations in the world.

‘Kuibyshev will be far larger than -

America’s famous Grand Coulee and Boul-
der hydroelectric stations.

_ It will send power to Moscow, Sara-
nov, Astrakhan and hundreds of towns in
central Russia.

Forest belts—you can see them in
the map—will be planted along both banks
of the river to protect ithe fertile land
against searing winds from the deserts of

Central Asia.

An immense network of irrigation
‘canals willbe built. The millions of Itrees
will transform the climate of the Caspian
area.

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An area exceeding the’ combined size
of Holland, Belgium and Denmark will
be brought under cultivation for the first
time.

Five seas canal

9—This year will see the completion of
the 80-mile-long Volga-Don canal.

When it is open for navigation five
seas White, Baltic, Azov, Caspian and
Black—will be connected by navigable
water routes.

Tsimlyanskaya hydroelectric stations
is nearly ready. The system of forest belts
is well under way. ‘

Flectrified farming

_—The system of dams and hydroelectric
stations on the River Dnieper will
bring millions of barren acres in the Crimea
and Ukraine into cultivation:

Here, as in the areas of the other
projects, agriculture will be electrified.
Vast new industries of every kind will
spring up to use the cheap electric power.

Fertile for first time

__Four ‘thousand experts are completing

the surveying work for the Grand

Turkmen Canal and its power stations and
irrigation canals.

The canal, stretching some 800 miles
through the ard Kara Kum desert (in

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the lower right corner of the map), will
be the longest in the world.

An area equivalent to Switzerland
and Denmark will be made fertile -for
the first time.

Almost total mechanisation of the job
will bring the canal to completion at record
speed by 1957. There will be three giant

power stations.
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Food for 100 million

There you have it in the barest out-
line. But this outline tells nothing of the
flowering of civilisation in former desert
regions, of the new towns, of tthe vast

increase in population that will be rendered,
possible. meee

When these secanets are complete the
Soviet Union will be growing enough
additional food for 100 million people.

. Every branch of science is involved.
Geologists are studying soil problems con-
nected with the canal cutting and irriga-
tion plans.

Weather experts are trying to fore
cast what precisely will happen to the
weather when tree shelter-belts are com-

pleted.

More wheat than Canada
The USSR Plant Cultivation Insti-

tute is testing 600 varieties of spring wheat

for use in the 70 million acres of newly
cultivatable land.

Cotton, almonds, apricots, walnuts,
and vines are being selected for Turkmenia.

Three thousand varieties of fruit and
berries are being examined to find the
best varieties for planting in ‘the Crimea.

The total wheat crop in the newly
irrigated areas alone will be far greater
than that of Canada—one of the world’s
leading wheat producers. :

The annual output of the new power
stations will be 22,000 million kilowatt-
hours. That is equal to the output of
all power stations of Denmark, Finland,
Holland, Belgium and Spain combined.

They want peace

These staggering undertakings are de-
signed to play a key part in fulfilling the
famous short definition of Communism:
“From each according to his capacity—
to each according to his needs.”

For they will help to produce such
abundance in the Soviet Union 'that Soviet
society will begin to have enough of every~
thing for everybody. .

The only thing that can stop it now

is war. Can anyone wonder that the

people of the Soviet Union are passionately
attached to peace?

After all, look at the map. Look
_ what peace will offer them!
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 2, 1951 — PAGE 5

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