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Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 For the Happiness of the People “For the Happiness of the People,” — so the Soviet artist D. Nalbandyan named his new painting. It shows the Polit- ical Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in session. A map of the USSR is spread on a long table. Stalin and his comrades-in-arms are bending over this map. With his wise and inspired vision, the great architect of communism peers into the future. Be- fore him is the plan for remaking nature on a vast territory of the country. Forest shelter-belts will block the way to dry winds and convert deserts into green fields and blossom- ing meadows. A few years will pass, and the green leaves of young forests will rustle over the rejuvenated land, new OCTOBER 13, 1950 canals and reservoirs will supply moisture to the sun-scorched soil... For the first time in the history of mankind, the Soviet people have built up a planned and highly organized econ- " omy which is developing with unprecedented specd and showing examples of miraculous growth and construction. If one were to take in at a glance the entire land of Soviets —— from the Kuriles to the Baltic shores, and from the Arctic to the Pamir ranges — he would behold the majestic pano- rama of a titanic construction site. Factories and mills are being erected, new railways are being laid, swamps are being drained, and water is being directed into the deserts. 577 Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6