TOWARD THE ULTIMATE GOAL

Translated from Metallurg, No. 12, p. I , December, 1961

The end of the third year of the seven-year plan is approaching, and this year will go down in the history of

our country as one of immense labor triumphs of the Soviet people.

The XXII congress of the CPSU, which adopted the new, third program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, marked a new bright era in the life of all humanity. "Building a communist society has become the immedi- ate, practical undertaking of the Soviet people. The gradual metamorphosis of socialism into communism is histor- ically ordained; it has been anticipated in all the previous development of the Soviet socialist society." Thus is

it written in the new Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

A communist society has ceased to be a Utopia, a distant dream of millions of people; its horizons are already clearly visible to us, the Soviet people. "The present generation of Soviet people will live under communism', reads the program of the CPSU. The life and deeds of the Soviet people are immediate illustrations of this.

Communist labor|

These words may now be heard in plants and factories, on state farms and collective farms - i n every corner

of our vast country.

Soviet metallurgists march in the front ranks of the army of builders of communism. Each year they provide the Fatherland with tens of thousands of tons of high-quality metal in excess of planned production.

Our metallurgist hailed the opening day of the XXII congress of the CPSU with labor gifts. Reports of early fulfillment of duties assumed in honor of the congress flew to Moscow from all corners of the Soviet Union. The fight for communist labor developed at all metallurgical establishments of the country. Crews, shifts, units, departments,

and entire plants fought for the right to wear the honored title.

A powerful material-technical foundation, the basis of which is heavy industry, is necessary for building a com- munist society. In 1961 went into operation the largest blast furnace in the world at the Krivorog Metallurgical Plant and the largest open-hearth furnace in the world in the MMC, a powerful 2a00 mill at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, and dozens of large-scale units in the plants and combines of the country. This means that in the near future hundreds of thousands of tons of metal will be produced to meed the demands of the national economy.

Our party has always devoted and will continue to devote major attention to the development of metallurgy. "Further rapid increase in the production of metals and fuel, which constitute the foundation of modern industry, will continue as before to be one of the most important tasks of the national economy," reads the program of the CPSU.

Soviet metallurgists are aware of the huge responsibility which the nation has laid on them in this most noble

of enterprises on the ear th- the building of communism.

There is no doubt that in 1962 they will exercise all their st~engtla, knowledge, and experience to provide the Fatherland with more iron, steel, and rolled stock which will be used in the building of a new, foremost on the earth,

communist society.

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