The Reconstruction of Moscow

"Bearing in mind that the further development of industrial construction of the country must proceed along the lines of creating new industrial bases in tural districts, and thus bring nearer the final aboli- tion of the contrast between town and country, the Plenum of the Central Committee deems it inexpedient to agglomerate a huge number of enterprises in the big urban centres now in existence and proposes an the future not to build new industrial enterprises in these cities, and above all- not to : build them in Moscow and Leningrad as from ,1932." This decision expresses the, policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which is directed towards the proper geographical distribution of productive forces throughout the country. The Soviet government and the Communist Party are opposed to the unrestricted growth of industry exclusive- ly in a few centres, while there are purely agrarian dis- tricts having no industry whatevet. The Soviet government and the Communist Party consider that socialist industry sliould infuse new life into all the territories and regions of the great Soviet land and that every district should have its own sbund industrial base. Apart from this decision oh the distribution of pro- ductive forces throughout the country, the June Plenum of the C.G. of the C.P.S.U. also expressed its views on the principles of distributing the population and all enter- prises and institutions serving it in the socialist city itself: "In planning Moscow as a socialist city, in contra- , distinction to capitalist cities, an extreme concentra- tipn of large masses ol" the population, enterprises, schools, hospitals, theatres, clubs, shops, dining-rooms, etc., in small :areas should not be allowed."

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