in certain moods this strikes me :
the original 5 year plan
once my paradigm
now strikes me as
romantic party folly ..at best
the class war launched by the party on the peasants
a betrayal of the alliance
the gulag solution to surplus population
beyond a human tragedy
the heavy industry --- basic industry -- surge was a profligate sacrifice
the building of a modern military production platform an un necessary dissastor
this pretty well ads up to an indictment of the stalin model
but it isn't ..nothing about that model seems contingent
the first 5 year plan went forward with accelerating prodigality much like the great leap
because
nothing could prevent it
