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...Насчет наших заготовок. Надо сказать, заготовки происходят в чрезвычайно тяжелой атмосфере. Заключается эта тяжелая атмосфера в том, что мы имеем плохие виды на урожай, как на Украине и части Северного Кавказа, или
мы имеем неопределенные виды на урожай, например, в Сибири, где еще идет сев, на Урале. На весь низовой аппарат тяжелая атмосфера оказывает плохое влияние.
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Должен сказать, что те невидимые запасы, которые исчисляет ЦСУ, это миф. Никакой другой проверки, лучше, чем это было сделано, сделать нельзя. В чем заключалась ошибка? Я всегда говорил, что продукция исчисляется
преувеличенно, затем, когда к концу года выявляется, что заготовка мала, экспорт мал, все это относят на невидимые запасы. Это также подкреплялось данными, которые получались с мест. На последнем заседании Экспертного совета было решено поставить доклад о методологии исчисления невидимых запасов. Если мы ошиблись в невидимых запасах, допустим, на 30% и невидимые запасы не в 900 млн пуд., а 550, то и в этом случае мы должны овладеть этим страховым фондом. Из этого вытекают большие последствия. По нашим предварительным подсчетам выходит, что валовой сбор значительно меньше, чем в прошлом году, — на 250 — 300 млн пуд. Должен сказать, что в настоящее время мы имеем исключительно тяжелую обстановку с овсом.
Вопроса будущего года мы касаться сейчас не будем, перед нами сейчас стоит вопрос, как прожить. У нас есть ряд предположений. Мы сейчас научились хорошо примешивать кукурузу. Оборудование это стоит недорого. В будущем году мы надеемся иметь большой урожай кукурузы. Мы думаем всю кукурузу пустить на перемол, за исключением небольшого количества для винокуренной промышленности. Насчет ячменя, мы сейчас делаем опыт и будем, я думаю, примешивать и ячмень. Должен вам сказать, что мы к пшенице примешиваем уже рожь в размере 15%. По ячменю посевная площадь значительно расширилась. Украина считает, что посевная площадь по ячменю у них расширилась на 50%. Так что у нас вообще может получиться такая картина, что мы сможем экспортировать ячмень, а в стране нечего будет кушать.
Вот примерно все.

Горбоносый стал загибать пальцы: «Нам нужен программист: а — небалованный, бэ — доброволец, цэ — чтобы согласился жить в общежитии…»

Chateau Cthulhu is a mid-Victorian terrace, an anonymous London dormitory unit distinguished mainly by having three cellar rooms and a Laundry residential clearance, meaning that it's probably not bugged by the KGB, CIA, or our enemies in MI6. There is a grand total of four double-bedrooms, each with a lock on the door, plus a shared kitchen, living room, dining room, and bathroom. The plumbing gurgles ominously late at night; the carpet is a peculiarly lurid species of paisley print that was the height of fashion in 1880, and then experienced an undeserved resurrection among cheap-ass landlords during the 1980s.

Activist: A person employing tactics in the cause of liberation which, when used by a fascist, are known as McCarthyism and repression.

Aggression: Any foreign policy advocated by a fascist.

Black: Of whole or partial sub-Saharan African descent; from the skin color, which ranges from brown to ivory. Not to be confused with Brown, Red, White, or Yellow. This word replaces the former “Negro,” which today is considered insulting since it means “Black.”

Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other noncombatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.

Brown: Of Mexican descent; from the skin color, which ranges from brown to ivory. Not to be confused with Black, Red, White, or Yellow.

Brutality: Any action taken by a policeman. Cf. pig.

Chauvinism: Belief of any Western White man that there is anything to be said for his country, civilization, race, sex, or self. Chauvinist: Any such man; hence, by extension, a fascist of any nationality, race, or sex.

Colonialist: Anyone who believes that any European — or North American-descended person has any right to remain in any territory outside Europe or North America where his ancestors happened to settle, unless these were Russian. Cf. native.

Concentration camp: An enclosed area into which people suspect to their government or to an occupying power are herded. No progressive country or liberation movement can operate a concentration camp, since by definition these have full support of the people. NB: Liberals consider it impolite to mention Nisei in this connection.

Conformist: One who accepts establishment values without asking troublesome questions. Cf. nonconformist.

Conservative: See aggression, bombing, brutality, chauvinism, colonialist, concentration camp, conformist, establishment, fascist, imperialist, McCarthyism, mercenary, military-industrial complex, missile, napalm, pig, plutocrat, prejudice, property rights, racist, reactionary, repression, storm trooper, xenophobia.

Criminal: A fascist, especially when apprehended and punished. Cf. martyr.

Democracy: A nation in which the government, freely elected, remains responsive to the popular will, e.g., Czechoslovakia.

Development: (1) In fascist countries, the bulldozing of trees and hillsides, erection of sleazy row houses, etc., or in general, the exploitation of the environment. (2) In progressive countries, the provision of housing for the masses, or in general, the utilization of natural resources to satisfy human needs.

Ecology: (1) Obsolete: The study of the interrelationships of living things with each other and with the general environment. (2) Everything nonhuman which is being harmed by the establishment, such as trees and falcons but not including rats, sparrows, algae, etc. Thus progressive countries have no ecology.

Establishment: The powers that be, when these are conservative.

Fallout: Radioactive material from a nuclear weapon, widely distributed if this is tested in the atmosphere, universally condemned for its deleterious effect upon public health and heredity, unless the test is conducted by a progressive country.

Fascist: A person who favors measures possibly conducive to the survival of the West.

Freedom: Instant gratification.

Glory: An outworn shibboleth, except when applied to a hero or martyr.

Hero: A person who sacrifices and takes risks in a progressive cause. Cf. pig and storm trooper.

Honor: See glory.

Human rights: All rights of the people to freedom, when held to take infinite precedence over property rights, since the latter are not human rights.

Imperialist: A person who advocates that any Western country retain any of its overseas territory.

Liberation: Foreign expulsion and domestic overthrow of Western governments, influences, and institutions. Sacred liberation: Liberation intended to result in a (People’s) Republic. Love: An emotion which, if universally felt, would automatically solve all human problems, but which some (see conservative) are by definition incapable of feeling.

Martyr: A person who suffers or dies in the cause of liberation. Not to be confused with a criminal or, collectively, with enemy personnel.

McCarthyism: Character assassination for political purposes, by asserting that some person is a member of the Communist conspiracy, especially when this is done by an admirer of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Not to be confused with asserting that some person is a member of the fascist conspiracy, especially when this is done by an admirer of Sen. Eugene McCarthy.

Mercenary: A soldier who, for pay, serves a government not his own. Cf. United Nations.

Military-industrial complex: An interlocking directorate of military and industrial leaders, held to be in effective control of the USA. Not to be confused with military and industrial leaders of the USSR or the various (People’s) Republics.

Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned for its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other noncombatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hue, etc. Cf. bombing.

Napalm: Jellied gasoline, ignited and propelled against enemy personnel, condemned by all true liberals except when used by Israelis upon Arabs.

Native: A non-White inhabitant of a region whose ancestors dispossessed the previous lot.

Nonconformist: One who accepts progressive values without asking troublesome questions. Cf. conformist.

Nuclear weapon: A weapon employing some form of atomic energy, used by fascist governments for purposes of aggression and by progressive governments to further the cause of peace.

One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.

Organic: Of foods, grown only with natural manures, etc., and with no chemical sprays, etc., hence free of harmful residues and of earthborne diseases or serious insect infestation, since surrounding lands have been artificially fertilized and chemically sprayed.

Peace: The final solution of the fascist problem. Peaceful coexistence: A stage preliminary to peace, in which aggression is phased out and sacred liberation proceeds.

People: (Always used with the definite article and often capitalized.) Those who support liberation. Hence everyone not a fascist is counted among them, whether he wants to be or not.

Personnel: Members of a military or police organization, whether hostile or useful. Not to be confused with human beings.

Pig: (1) An animal known for its value, intelligence, courage, self-reliance, kindly disposition, loyalty, and (if allowed to follow its natural bent) cleanliness. (2) A policeman. Cf. activist.

Plutocrat: A citizen of a republic who, because of enormous wealth which he refuses to share with the poor, wields undue political power. Not to be confused with a Kennedy.

Poor: (Always used with the definite article and often capitalized.) That class of persons who are defined by someone as possessing less than their rightful wealth and privilege. The progressive definition includes all non-fascist Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow persons, regardless of income.

Pot: Marijuana. Must we go through that alcohol-tobacco-tranquilizers-are-legal routine again?

Prejudice: Hostility or contempt for a person or group, on a purely class basis and regardless of facts. Not to be confused with judgment passed on enemies of the people (see conservative).

Progressive: Conducive to liberation.

Property rights: The alleged rights of persons who have earned or otherwise lawfully obtained property, or of taxpayers who have similarly acquired property which is then designated public, to be secure in the enjoyment thereof, irrespective of human rights.

Racist: A White person who, when any Black person rings a bell, fails to salivate.

Reactionary: Not progressive.

Red: (1) Of American Indian descent; from the skin color, which ranges from brown to ivory. Not to be confused with Black, Brown, White, or Yellow, nor with “Mexican,” even though most Mexicans are of American Indian stock. (2) Struggling for liberation or struggling in its aftermath.

Repression: Denial of the right of free speech, e.g., by refusal to provide a free rostrum for an activist, or the right of a free press, e.g., by refusing to print, televise, or stock in libraries every word of an activist, or the right to be heard, e.g., by mob action against an activist. Not to be confused with protection of the people from reactionary infection.

Republic: A country whose government is chosen not on a basis of heredity or riches but by the electorate, from whom political power grows. People’s Republic: One in which the electorate consists of a gun barrel.

Self-determination: The right of a culturally or ethnically distinct group to govern themselves, as in Biafra, East Pakistan, Goa, Katanga, the Sinai, Tibet, the Ukraine, etc.

Storm trooper: A person who sacrifices and takes risks in a fascist cause. Cf. hero.

United Nations: An international organization which employs Swedish, Indian, Irish, Canadian, etc. troops in other parts of the world than these so as to further self-determination.

White: Of Caucasoid descent; from the skin color, which ranges from brown to ivory. Not to be confused with Black, Brown, Red, or Yellow.

Winds of change: Poetic metaphor for the defeat of reactionary forces. Not applicable to any advance or restoration of these.

Women’s Liberation: A movement which opposes male chauvinism.

Xenophobia: Distrust of the ability of strangers to run your life for you.

Yellow: Of Mongoloid descent; from the skin color, which ranges from brown to ivory. Not to be confused with Black, Brown, Red, or White.

"The first thing that is forced on us in conclusion is the necessarily intelligent and non-bellicose character of the community which could thus act as a unit through-out its globe. War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. The wisest realize that there are better ways for practicing heroism and other and more certain ends of insuring the survival of the fittest. It is something a people outgrow. But whether they consciously practice peace or not, nature in its evolution eventually practices it for them, and after enough of the inhabitants of a globe have killed each other off, the remainder must find it more advantageous to work together for the common good."

"'But-Oh, the devil! What can we do about it?'

'Nothing. Things are bound to get a whole lot worse before they can get any better. Let's have a drink.'"

Роберт А. Хайнлайн, Logic of Empire, 1941

13 декабря 1932 г. моим заместителем т. Тухачевским было проведено совещание по вопросам поражающих лучей с участием академиков А. Ф. Иоффе, А. А. Чернышева и Миткевича, профессора Шулейкина и научных работников НКВМ. Академик Иоффе и другие утверждают возможность применения ультракоротких волн и электронных потоков больших скоростей как поражающих средств. Решение этих проблем имеет колоссальное военное значение.

Чтобы не оказаться перед фактом неожиданного применения этого вида техники, нам необходимо активизировать указанную работу и привлечь для разрешения ряда задач узкую группу специалистов.

РВСС считает целесообразным:

1) разработку вопроса о поражающих лучах поручить академику Иоффе с привлечением академика Чернышева, Миткевича и Шулейкина и 2‑3 молодых инженеров, работающих в этой области;

2) всю работу сосредоточить в Государственном физико-техническом институте. Остальные институты и заводы должны выполнять только отдельные и частные задания или агрегаты;

3) наблюдение за работой поручить комиссии в составе тт. Орджоникидзе (председатель), Бухарина, Павлуновского, Ягоды, Тухачевского, Уншлихта и Куйбышева Н.

Прошу этот вопрос поставить на обсуждение КО.