The Reconstruction of Moscow

greater (48-60,000 persons per hour in one direction as a,gainst 18,0p0 persons by street-car). Thus, in addition to the fact that it is not hindered by traffic (as street-cars are), that it does not constitute a hazard to pedestrians and that its service is more rapid and punctual, it can serve many thousands more people, considerably lighten- ing surface traffic. The Moscow subway is the prototype of the socialist public utility, and in this lies its historic significance. The U.S.S.R. is proud of the fact that the Moscow subway is the very best creation of engineering and architecture and that there is no subway' equal to it in any capitalist country. The subway of the revolution, is a revolution in sub- ways. And there is no doubt that all the municipal trans^- portation facilities which the Soviets are reconstructing and developing will completely revolutionize the daily life of the Soviet Union's cities. Moscow owes its great accomplishment in the cons- truction of the first section of the subway primarily to the successes scored in the socialist industrialization of the Soviet Union, and to the enormous achievements attained by the mighty and flourishing socialist country under the leadership of the Bolshevik Central Committee and the leader of the proletariat— Stalin. Moscow owes this accomplishment to the heroism of the Moscow Bolsheviks and proletarians who built the sub- way under the brilliant leadership of L. M. Kaganovich (at present Commissar of Railways) and his closest associate, N. S. Khrushchev (now Secretary of the Moscow Party Committee). Moscow owes this accomplishment to the assistance arid support of the entire Party membership and all the proletarians of the Soviet Union. The role Of the human factor in the construction of the subway, in particular the role of the Moscow Y.C.L.

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