ABSTRACT
Since, as Stalin declared, "Socialism is neither misery nor privation", the whole policy of the First Five-Year Plan was condemned both from the moral and the material points of view. "To create an economic basis for Socialism", said Stalin, "we must merge agriculture and socialized industry into a single economic whole, organize relations between towns and villages on the basis of the direct barter of products; close and suppress all the channels which", etc. In its turn, this system was destined to end in the "inevitable failure" predicted by Lenin. The Soviet Government freely describes the 12 days paid holiday allowed to the workers as one of the "conquests" of the Bolshevik Revolution. To-day again, after twenty years of Bolshevik rule, Pravda, according to its custom, still looks to the future for the establishment of a more normal proportion between means of production and articles of consumption.
