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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

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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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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.

e . 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. : e ®

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

“Canadian-Soviet Friendship

YSON Carters’s invaluable guide about life in the Sov- iet Union, the handy and _ at- tractive mimeographed News- Facts is available to those seeking an antidote for the news-poison fed Canadians daily in the big commercial ‘press. ;

Selling at $1 a year; News- Facts, is the voice of the

Society, offices located at 479 Queen Street West, Toronto 2B. Details of new Soviet advances in farming, health, medicine, industry, culture are to be found regularly in Carter’s buletin.

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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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