at there is not a single fac-
@ry in Leningrad that is not
forking. “Only in nine months
| 1944” says the message,
iver 600,000 square meters of
ctory space have been put in
yeration again.” Among fac-
dries which have resumed
@eration are the huge Izhera
id Kirov works. And it should
‘ borne in mind that the Kirov
orks ‘‘double,” or rather the
iginal factory which was
cuated from lLeningrad, is
forking at full capacity in the
Brais 2. =.

‘In the nine months since the
sd Army smashed the Ger-
an troops before Leningrad
‘| entergfises of the ship-
iidine, chemical, nonferrous
tals and other industries
ve been put to work again.
firing the same period over
zht hundred thousand square
Meters of housing space and
mdreds of buildings, schools,
lleges, theaters and clubs
ave been restarted in Lenin-
fad. The streets have been
pared of rubble, and of all
aces of bombings and artil-
cy Shellings. The ruins have
fven way to squares and
rks. “lLeningraders are tak
€ special pains,’ says the
essage further, “to restore
Mnuments of architectural
“ped? ial

*

» The people of Leningrad are
ing this -work themselves
th their own hands and with
aterials produced or found
geht in Leningrad. A consider-
sle part of this work has been
me -by volunteers working
iring their hours off. Over 20
Hilions of man hours have
ius been contributed by Lenin-
taders to the work of restor-
& their city and all this has
sen done by people who only
tcently passed through the
arible ordeal of 30 months
laren”

HEN the Germans captured
the Ulwaine with the in-
istrial districts of the Dnieper
tea, the Donetz basin and
\harkoy they shouted from all
le housetops that the Soviet
nion was out of the running,
lat its war potential had been
ympletely destroyed. But at
lat very time the factories and
dlls moved from the invaded
*publics and regions were be-
ig put up in the Urals, in
iberia and the republics of
fiddle Asia and other eastern
2gions of the Soviet Union;
®w industrial enterprises were
Ader construction and the in-
Ostries of the Hast which had
sen built up during the period
f£ the Stalin Five-Year Plans
€fan to produce at a rate
*hich enabled them soon to
feet the needs of the armed
Orces of the Union in their
mele combat with Hitler’s
far machine, for which the in-

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Vous 1, No 6, Dessmbar 9. 1941

age A Nation of Heroes

“Unprecedented difficulties of the present war far from breaking,

still further steeled the courageous spirit of the Soviet People.

Our people have justly earned fame as a nation of heroes’’—Stalin

By i. TALMY

BOSCOW, USSR.— (Direct Cable to PA)

dustries of all countries of
Hurope worked at that time.
An idea of what has been
achieved since then is provided
by the new figures relating
enly to the Urals. In the first
half of 1944 the Urals mined
as much iren ore and produced
as much pig iron and rolled
steel as in the whole of 1940—
the last prewar year. In the
Same half year the Urals pro-
duced three times as much alu-
minum as in the whole of 1940,
four times as much coke and
eight times as much manganese
ore. The Urals today is pro-
ducing almost five times as
much electric power as in 1940.

Thousands

joined the pick

QUR people have justly earned fame as a nation of heroes.” (Joseph Stalin).

- In a message of greetings to Joseph Stalin, adopted at a meeting of the Leningrad

oviet held in celebration of the 27th anniversary of the October revolution, it reported

EE Was not an easy job to ac-

complish all this. The evacu-
ation was no pleasare trip. The
people left their homes behind
them and trayelled—sometimes
for weeks to unknown parts
where it was necessary not only
to set the factories and mills
up anew but somehow to fix
themselves and their families
up anew. And it must be said
that settling in new places did
not always proceed smoothly,
not always was everything:

there prepared and arranged
beforehand to receive the new
arrivals.

There was a host of difficul-
ties to be overcome: housing

SSSSSsss

facilities had to be improvised,
food was scarce and the prob-
lem of fuel gave people plenty
of worry—the winter that year
was extremely severe. But the
people did not let the difficul-
ties interfere with their work.
While doing all they could to
overcome difficulties they
never for a moment forgot
their first duty was to work
for the war effort.

And how the people worked

may be judged by the fact, for ~

example, that in the metallur-
gical industry the productivity
of labor increased by 40 percent
in two years—from April 1942
to April 1944. In the munitions
industries it inereased still
more. In one ordnance plant
(its director is the well known
Hero of Socialist Labor Yelan)
the ‘output of cannon increased
eightenfold. One can hardly rea-

f

lize what an increase like that
means in terms of human ef-
fort, and human ingenuity.
Such an increase—and at a
time when labor power is at a
premium—could only be achiev-
ed by allout exertion, physical

and intellectual efforts of work-_

ers, technicians and engineers.

This applies to all branches
of industry and all the prob-
lems of production and restora-
tion that have to be faced under
the conditions of the unprece-
dented war. The Petrovsky
works in Dniepropetrovsk for
instance was one of the leading
iron and steel plants of the
country before the war. When
the Germans invaded the Uk-
raine all ‘movable’ equipment
of that plant was removed to
the East. At the time of their
hasty retreat from Dnieprope-
trovsk in the autumn of 1943
the Germans demolished the
factory buildings and all the
remaining equipment. Today
this factory is again producing
metal.

THE story of its restoration

is an epic of human courage,
endurance and ingenuity. For
about a half year after libera-
tion of Dniepropetrovsk the
frontline was at a relatively
small distance from the city.
There were no building work

‘ers available so the former

workers of the factory had to
tackle the job of restoration
themselves. Iron and steel
workers became bricklayers,
conerete mixers, girder rivet-
ers. There were no lathes to
start work with so the workers
themselves built scores of
lathes out of scrapiron and ma-
terials captured from the
enemy. :

Or take the task which con-
fronted Soviet railway work _
ers in this war. Im the summer
of 1941 and in the winter of
1941-1942 the Soviet railways
had to cope with the evacuation
of factories and millions of
people to the East, and with
the transportation of men and
war supplies from.the Hast to
the West. In 1942 the principal
lines of communication between
the Central Regions and the
South and Southeast had been
eut and shipments had to be
carried by roundabout routes
ever the railways of Middle
Asia. Later as more and more
Soviet territory was cleared of
the fascist invaders it was
necessary to resume traffic on
the dense network of railways
in the Ukraine, Belorussia, the
Western regions of the RSFSR
and the Baltic Republics.

This involved the restoration
of tens of thousands of Ilo-
meters of wrecked tracl, thous-
ands of stations and yards and
many thousands -of bridges,
small and large. All this was
accomplished in record time
and today thousands of trains
are running on restored rail-
ways carrying the Red Army

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