THE FIVE YEARS PLAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20923, 13 July 1931, Page 13

THE FIVE YEARS PLAN.

Sir, —Thanks to the open way in which the Soviet speak at the Third International conferences we can see quite clearly what is really the objective of the Five Years Plan in Soviet Russia. At the tenth plenum of the Third International, "Molotov, the Soviet Prime Minister, said: "The Five Years Plan of Socialist construction is not only the basis of the U.S.S.R., but also the prop and pillar of the world revolution." The Soviet paper Pravda, of August 29, 1929, wrote that "the Five Years Plan is an important part of the offensive of the proletariat of the world against capitalism." Voroshilov, Commissar for Army and Navy, said: "We must conduct our work so as to try to export the largest possible quantities of goods abroad, to receive foreign currency for them, for the building of ..the Five Years Plan." Manuilsky, member of the executive of tlie Third International, said at the eleventh plenum: "Our Five Years Plan is a plan for the destruction of capitalism stabilisation. This is the reason, comrades, why we represent to you this plan as a basis for the development of yoyir revolutionary movement. From these Soviet statements it will be seen that this great experiment is more than an attempt to place Soviet Russia on its feet economically. It is a well-devised scheme, with the primary object of upsetting the economic stability of "capitalist" countries, even at the cost of imposing immense hardships on the people of the U.S.S.R. N.Z. Welfare League.