Revolution, in the light for the happy future of our
country.
With the end of the wa,r, the Soviet Union entered a
new period in its development. Since the beginning of last
year we have been working in accordance with the program
of the new, postwar five-year plan. Comrade Stalin defined
our new objectives as follows:
"The main tasks of the new five-year plan are to re-
habilitate the devastated regions of our country, to restore
industry and agriculture to the prewar level, and then to
exceed that level to a more or less considerable extent."
The targets -set by the Party and the Government in
rehabilitating and developing the national economy in-
spired our people to fresh heroic efforts and feats of
labour. The whole country is now fired by the ambition
not onjly to fulfil, but to overfulfil the new five-year plan.
Agriculture at the beginning of the new five-year plan
was handicapped by the drought which last year afflicted
important agricultural areas. However, the ability of our
country rapidly to overcome the economic difficulties it
encounters is well known. This was again demonstrated by
the fact that, thanks to the measures taken by the Party
and the Government, the gross grain croip this year is 58
per cent above that of last year.
Last year, which was the first year of the postwar
five-year plan, we already secured a big increajse in 'indus-
trial output. However, last year's -program was fulfilled by
industry only by 96 per cent, due to the fact that its
reconversion to peace had not yet been completed.
. On the other hand, this year Soviet industry is over-
fulfilling its program. In -the first three-quarters of the
current year, industry fulfilled its nine months' program
by 103 per cent. The whole country is expressing its joy
at the fact that our glorious Leningrad is now again
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