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ers not been exposed and ejected, the position in
respect to the fulfilment of economic plans would
have been far worse. This is something which the
short-sighted authors of the theory under review
ought to remember.
Fourthly, the wreckers usually time the main part
of their wrecking work not for peace time, but for
the eve of war, or for war itself. Suppose we lulled
ourselves with this rotten "systematic fulfilment
of economic plans" theory and did not touch the
wreckers. Do the authors of this rotten theory appreciate
what an enormous amount of harm the wreckers
would do to our country in case of war if we
allowed them to remain within the body of our national
economy, sheltered by the rotten "systematic fulfilment
of economic plans" theory?
Is it not clear that this "systematic fulfilment
of economic plans" theory is a theory which is advantageous
to the wreckers?
10) We must smash and cast aside the fourth
rotten theory to the effect that the Stakhanov movement
is the principal means for the liquidation of
wrecking.
This theory has been invented in order, amidst
the noisy chatter about the Stakhanovites and the
Stakhanov movement, to parry the blow against the
wreckers.
In his report Comrade Molotov quoted a number
of facts which show how the Trotskyite and non-
Trotskyite wreckers of the Kuznetsk and Donetz Basins
abused the confidence of our politically careless comrades,
systematically led the Stakhanovites by the
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