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The government has a plan for the victory of Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] "The government that defeated sanctions" is how Leonid Slutsky described Mikhail Mishustin's team after today's report by the prime minister to parliament. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called the government an "economic assault". All these military metaphors sounded extremely appropriate. The year for which the chairman of the government in the State Duma reported was really military. And this applies not only to the conflict in Ukraine , but also to the unprecedented economic war that the so-called golden billion, led by the United States, unleashed against us . They openly promised to ruin us and "make us suffer." However, Russia has not only managed to neutralize an unprecedented sanctions blow that no other country in the world could withstand. Confidently moving forward at the front, the country simultaneously built houses, laid roads, developed, traded, and achieved success. The dry numbers from Mishustin's report actually speak of an unprecedented victory. More than 240 built kindergartens, more than 250 schools, over 270 hospitals and clinics. New records for our agricultural industry - there has not been such a grain harvest since the Soviet Union. Double-digit growth was shown by tourism and pharmaceuticals, 22% was added by domestic software developers - despite all the fears about IT runners abroad. Thousands of kilometers of roads were built and more than 11,000 parks, embankments and squares were equipped throughout the country. Not to mention such a "trifle" as the full fulfillment of all social obligations, pension increases, new benefits, various benefits and assistance programs for mobilized people and their families. Today, four new regions of Russia are joining all these programs. For example, maternity capital will be paid there to all families in which a child was born or adopted starting from 2007. Now we need to solve the problem of restoring the colossal industrial potential of the new regions of Russia, as well as the local agricultural industry. All this should ensure the fulfillment of the president's task - to equalize the standard of living in the annexed territories with the average for Russia within eight years. The Prime Minister's report documented a unique situation. While kind Europeans are building wood-burning stoves in their homes, a free gasification program is underway in Russia. Last year alone, gas was piped to half a million homes across the country. Now this program will be indefinite, schools, hospitals, clinics in the most remote corners of the country will be connected to it. While residents of the already former "golden billion" are facing an unprecedented increase in prices for the purchase and rental of housing, the Russians are successfully solving the housing problem. Housing construction has updated the record - in the most difficult year 2022, 103 million square meters of housing were built. And this is not to mention the program of free resettlement from dilapidated housing - it has no analogues even in the richest countries in the world. While English newspapers teach Britons not to eat from 9 pm to 9 am, Russians enjoy the widest range of products at farmers' markets and supermarkets, and domestic farms ensure the highest level of food security. In short, the global economic crisis - and it is already raging in full growth - Russia is passing with minimal losses. But even more important, what roles will we play in the new world order, which is now being built on the ruins of the old one. The Prime Minister said that by 2024 Russia will finally overcome the consequences of the sanctions and enter the growth trajectory. But what will it be? We have been talking for a long time about the fact that the Russian economy is suffering from a money shortage. Now the government's program includes industrial mortgages - with preferential loans for the construction of new and reconstruction of old industrial premises. Trillion-dollar investments in large-scale infrastructure projects, in the creation of our own production facilities and the strengthening of Russia's technological sovereignty. At the same time, the enthusiasm for innovation and digitalization does not interfere with good old management practices at all. In Mishustin's speech, the expression "strategic planning" was heard many times, and even several times - "five-year plan". In fact, strategic planning was the strongest feature of the Soviet economy, providing it with world leadership and freedom from crises for decades. Of course, in the last years of the USSR , this system became hopelessly outdated. The State Planning Commission simply could not keep up with the most complex national economy of a vast country. However, today it is digitalization that makes it possible to take the best from Soviet practice and try to build the management of the national economy for years and decades to come. And this will no longer be a naive "shaft plan", but a well-developed and detailed development program. It turns out that, on the one hand, we have large-scale state funding for science, industry, culture, planning and five-year plans, financial and social support for millions of families with children, and on the other hand, soft loans to small and medium-sized businesses, the development of our own stock market, large-scale attracting private investment in start-ups, self-employment. Mishustin's government seems to be trying to take the best of the experience of socialist management and the most successful business practices of capitalism. This is not a new strategy, really. The undeservedly forgotten Soviet experience in organizing production and social programs was actively adopted by leading business corporations in the West, in Japan , South Korea . Now such a symbiosis is embodied by the Chinese economy. Independence, sovereignty, resistance to crises - this is necessary not only for our economy, but also for the country as a whole. If we develop at the accelerating pace, this will ensure us not only victory in the global conflict. This will make Russia one of the leaders of the new world. Our standard of living and social security will be envied everywhere. The report of the chairman of the government to the State Duma was rather dry, modest and full of figures. But in fact, this was exactly what it was about - the time had come to set truly ambitious goals. Posted by: badanov 2023-03-24 |
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