Dr. Vladimir Matverevich Pisarev Masters of Economics Larisa Scherba, Canada an excellent interpreter from Russian into English

Either Narrow-Mindedness or Treason of the "Scientists" Ruined Socialism in the USSR

Misinformation is also a tool used to artificially preserve a regime of poverty in the Russian Federation and genocide of its population. One could suppose that today’s government of the Russian Federation, as well as the government of the USSR, uses some powerful "fifth column" to stay ignorant about history and the reasons of unnatural poverty in the USSR and in the Russian Federation. The same tools create the illusionary truth of the myth about socialism not being able to function in the world, as well as about Russia’s peoples’ incapability and unsuitability of its climate.

The author of this report is a former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1950-1991). He is proud about his joining the Communist Party when it was still called the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), about starting his military service during the time when Chief Commander was Stalin. It is a shame that since the 1950s in the USSR, that with the help of deceptive economic theories and disinformation extreme poverty is supported artificially, which compromises the ideas of socialism, as well as the Soviet peoples. This is happening at the time since the 1950s that Soviet Russia could have become the world leader in terms of level of salaries and pensions.

Psychologists, psychiatrists and philosophers unfortunately have not managed to explain the paradox and the absurdity of the "plans of reconstruction", which were used to justify at first the necessity of increased tempo of industrialization, and after 1950, when the USSR "secretly" became the most powerful state in the world (according to kilobytes of power used by various production equipment). Those same plans were used to justify the robbery and destruction of the state. Another peculiar feature of these plans is that they were planted into the "economic neosphere" of the USSR supposedly in the name of Marx and Lenin, strangely enough only after their deaths. You can read the details in the attached brochure "Stalin Deceived" (M., 1996), in the article "About the Unspoken Reasons of Impoverishment of the USSR – Russian Federation" (newspaper "Iskra" #2/02) and in other not much advertised small circulation publications, including several articles of "Economic and Philosophical Newspaper", where the author of this report is a member of the editorial team.

Both the government and the opposition in the Russian Federation, including all communist parties, seem to have an unspoken agreement to "keep secret" the history and reasons of the poverty and extreme poverty in the USSR and Russian Federation. The government does not, probably because its foreign leadership tells them to do so. The opposition likely maintains this agreement because they are embarrassed for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which with the help of the domestic and foreign "scientists"-economists and electrical technicians- led to poverty and destroyed the USSR. They are also embarrassed by the fact that since 1993 the Communist Party of the Russian Federation plays elections with the government, as in checkers, and constantly concedes defeat.

Miserable consequences of Gorbachev’s reforms – impoverishment and collapse of the state – happened because legal authorities of the USSR for some reason did not dismiss nonsensical economic theories and misinformation.

The numbers in table 1 show that by the early 1980s the USSR was "ahead of the entire planet" in the main criteria of industrial development, industrial electrification and productive forces in total. The hideously destructive leadership of the USSR, the data about which are highlighted in the table, was hidden and confused not only in the Soviet, but also in the statistical annual publications of the UN. These numbers are kept obscured up until now.

No matter what they say today about Lenin, he managed to formulate two brilliant and fruitful maxims: "Socialism is accounting!" and "Communism is soviet power plus electrification of the whole country!" The "fifth column" in the USSR interpreted these statements in their own way. They confused accounting completely, and accounting of the electric industry especially. They drove industrialization to destructive absurdity. By speeding-up the destruction during Gorbachev’s uskorenie (speeded up economic development), the conspirators managed to organize the long-awaited-for collapse of the country only in 1991, although they had been planning it since the 1960s).

Alarming signals about unprecedented destruction of the country started showing up in the 1950’s and continued arriving after 1979 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Council of Ministers (Sovet Ministrov), KGB, Genprocuratura of the USSR and in 1981 appeared in the newspaper "Pravda". However, no one responded to them. It seems that some mighty forces wanted to artificially preserve the cruelly created extreme poverty of the working and retired people, and all the budgets of USSR-Commonwealth of Independent States-Russian Federation.

Unfortunately, Lenin’s prediction came true both during the State Planning (Gosplan) and during the market economy: "We will be fools if we form enterprises na hoziyastvennom rasshete and will not manage to serve our interests in a businesslike manner" (vol. 54, p. 151 Russian edition). This happened because the reforms of Kosygin, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin have been and are still conducted by people who do not know the history and causes of the illnesses of the economy of the USSR-Russian Federation, therefore, their prescriptions for cure only make the illness worse…

You can read more on the subject in this author’s article "To Be Able to See and to Correct or Explanation of the Possibility of Establishing in Russia Western-European Salaries, Pensions and Benefits" (EFG #42/04) and in other publications, listed at the bottom of this article, including the brochure "Stalin Deceived", M. 1996. In these publications the author presents concise texts of legal drafts, which could heal the economy in 2-3 years and assure world leadership of the Russian Federation in real GNP per person, as well as in salaries and pensions per person.

As to the absurd economic theories, which have been helping the government of the USSR-Russian Federation to make us broke, these theories "ready" for dismissal are hard to hide, just like "what is written cannot be erased" and even more so what is printed in quantities of thousands and more. These theories are in all Soviet textbooks of political economy, in statistical publications of the USSR, Russian Federation, USA, UN, in the articles "Vosproizvodztvo" ("Back to Production"), "Dvigatel" ("Engine"), all three editions of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and in other publications. A good example is the book of Mason Gaffny and others "Behind the Curtains of Establishing Economic Theories. From Theory to Corruption", SPb, 2000.

Impressive data about the level of economic development of the USSR before Gorbachev’s "perestroika" inspire us to recall the conditions under which, according to Stalin "our Motherland with be guaranteed from any accidents". These conditions included annual production of 60 million tons of steel (in 1913 it was 4 million tons, in 1940 it was 18, in 1945 – 12) and pumping of 60 million tons of oil (in the past 10, 31, and 19 respectively). As Stalin believed, "it would take tree five-year plans, if not more" (to achieve these results). In reality, in 15 years the USSR produced not 60, but 65 million tons of steel and not 60, but148 tons of oil. Such grand success gave the Communist Party of the Soviet Union all reasons to promise the peoples of the USSR to build material and technical basis for communism by 1980 and even beyond, saying that "even today’s generation will live under communism."

The data from Table 1 testify about the USSR being significantly ahead of the USA by the 1980s in the main economic criteria. As to oil production, the USSR in some years overachieved the "guaranteed", as Stalin called it, level of production 10 times, i.e. it was 600 million tons. It seems there was everything necessary for creating conditions for distribution of material wealth according to one’s needs, which should be limited only by ethical and ecological considerations. In reality, the USA, lagging behind the USSR by that time had annually over one ton of grain, over 100 kilograms of meat per person, over 1.5 rooms per person and over 1.5 automobile per family. Trumpeters of communism could not even dream about such degree of material well-being. The basic material and technical foundation of the USSR was at least not worse.

It was the horrific distortion of the Soviet economy "in favour" of the so called "heavy" industry, which (the distortion) is characterized by the numbers the author highlighted, which up until today are kept secret, led to the peoples of the USSR being worn out by on-going shortages of consumer goods and in social services, including housing. This is what created a favourable background for the liquidation of socialism in the USSR and the country itself.

I must add the important fact that the extreme distortion of the economy of the USSR was achieved as early as in the 1960s, when the portion of means of production in all heavy and other commercial industries reached 75%, at the same time as the portion of consumer goods fell to 25%, while this proportion should be approximately the opposite. This is why "quiet Americans" awaited the crash of socialism in the USSR already in the 1960s. To their disappointment production of oil in the USSR grew significantly faster than Stalin forecasted in 1946. This is why Stalin’s successors managed to keep power for another 20 years. This was possible due to oil dollars, which were used to plug all the holes in the consumer goods market. And only when "quite Americans" talked Reagan into talking the king of Saudi Arabia to suddenly lower world oil prices, then oil-dollar support of the senseless economy of the USSR itself collapsed. This happened also because long term economic challenges and failures demoralized the Party, Komsomol (Young Communist League), military, MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs), KGB, and certainly the people of the USSR.

Today, despite the increase of world prices for oil, one of the main conditions of normalization of the economy of the Russian Federation and the whole life within it, including overcoming of the demographic catastrophe, our country went from oil exporter to importer, just like the USA, Japan and Germany. Let the "egghead" USA, Germany, Japan, China, and other countries wrack their brains over what to replace gasoline and diesel for automobiles and tractors with – biogas, carbon, rice, corn, or wood alcohol or some other new fuel. We are right – cheated and self sufficient as no one before in the history of humanity, we can "calmly" wait for the solution of the fuel problem. Meanwhile we can recommend to subjects of the Russian Federation to intensely restructure its construction and industry to their normal structure according to already existing "blueprints" and patterns of the economy of the USA and other countries of the "golden billion" of humanity. This restructuring cannot but assure our prosperity and might…

Sources: Narodnoe Hoziaistvo SSSR in 1983, page 68-71, in 1984 pages 76-79; Census of Manufacturers. Wach, SIC 3621; Industrial Statistics Yearbook, UN, NY 1993, pages 763, 766.

* Therefore, in 1980 USA produced 0.36 million of various equipment with power 5 horse powers and higher, and the USSR produced 3.6 million, which is 10 times more! However, Central Committee (Tz-S-U SSSR) forced the industry to increase production of machinery up until 1991, claiming in its annual publications that the USSR is behind the USA in production of industrial machinery!

The author brings up the data from 1980 because it was at that time that he came across the information, which allowed him to make a precise comparison of the production of electric motors in the USA and the USSR. This information provided him with an opportunity to begin the dismissal of the misinformation about the USSR running behind the USA in machine-building. Nonetheless, the management of the combined department of machine-building and electrical technology of Gosplan (State Planning Department) advised the author to remain silent. All subsequent attempts to prevent impoverishment of the country were in vain: the USSR was being led into market economy and a favourable "atmosphere" was being created in the form of unnatural poverty and multiple shortages in the consumer market and in social services.

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