the original document dated March 25, 1953, in which the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a special resolution on the termination of construction and preservation of the Transpolar Railway?
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Could you find me the original document dated March 25, 1953, in which the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a special resolution on the termination of construction and preservation of the Transpolar Railway?
Yandex Alice: Unfortunately, the original resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated March 25, 1953, No. 395-383ss, on the termination of construction and preservation of the Zapolyarnaya Railway (Salekhard-Igarka), is not available in the public domain. This document is classified as secret (the "ss" designation in the number indicates that it is top secret), and its copies may be stored in the following locations:
1.Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI)-
archival materials related to the activities of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Gulag can be preserved here.
2.State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF) - in the funds dedicated to the post-war period and infrastructure projects.
3. Specialized scientific libraries and research centers dedicated to the history of the USSR and railway construction.
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Termination of construction of the Transpolar Highway
Construction began in 1947.
The work was carried out in difficult conditions, but in five years the road was practically built. A telegraph connection was established between the northern territories of the country and Moscow. There were trains running, but only in a small section between Pur and Novy Urengoy, the road was not yet put into operation.
On March 25, 1953, a special resolution was passed by the Council of Ministers of the USSR to halt the construction and preserve the Transpolar Railway
Construction of a tunnel crossing to Sakhalin has been halted
In the spring of 1950, a decision was made to build a 540-kilometer railway and a 10-kilometer tunnel from Cape Lazarev to Cape Pogibi. By March 1953, a 120-kilometer railway line had been constructed on the mainland, a mine shaft had been dug, dams had been built, piers had been constructed, and so on.
On March 21, 1953, construction was halted
The curtailment of Stalin's plan for nature transformation
In October 1948, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a resolution titled "On the Plan for Field-Protective Forest Plantations, the Introduction of Grass-Field Crop Rotations, and the Construction of Ponds and Reservoirs to Ensure High and Sustainable Yields in the Steppe and Forest-Steppe Regions of the European Part of the USSR." This plan was immediately referred to in the press as the "Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature."
In 1953, the implementation of the plan was halted, and even worse, forest plantations were cut down, and 570 forest protection stations were closed.
All the equipment that had been used in accordance with Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature—cars, tractors, combines, etc.—was transferred to the virgin lands.
Curtailing plans to create a dollar-free zone for international trade
In April 1952, at the initiative of the Soviet Union, an International Economic Conference was held in Moscow, attended by representatives of 49 countries. The participating countries agreed to establish a broad-based bloc and a non-dollar trade zone.
In February 1953, a few days before Stalin's death, a meeting was held in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, at the initiative of the USSR, to establish a dollar-free ruble trade zone for the countries of Asia and Oceania. Similar regional meetings were planned for 1953 in Buenos Aires and Addis Ababa.
the Soviet Union was ready to create its own international market, based on the ruble rather than the dollar. However, after Stalin's death, this economic and strategic project was largely forgotten.
Refusal to follow Stalin's legacy in developing a theory of social development
After the 19th Party Congress in October 1952, the Central Committee established three independent departments:
Philosophy and History,
Economics and Law, and
Natural and Technical Sciences.
D.I. Chesnokov, a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee and the editor-in-chief of the journal "Kommunist," became the head of the Philosophy and History Department.
A.M. Rumyantsev, a member of the Central Committee, was appointed head of the Economics Department. Stalin set them the task of revitalizing theoretical work in the party, and to give an analysis of new processes and phenomena in the world.
D.I. Chesnokov recalled that Stalin said then: "Without theory, we are death, death, death!.."
A little earlier, in 1951, Stalin said to D.T. Shepilov, head of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda:
"We are now thinking of carrying out very large-scale economic measures. We are reorganizing our economy on a truly scientific basis. In order to do this, we need our people, our cadres, and our youth to know real political economy. The situation is now such that either we will prepare our people, our managers, and our economic leaders on the basis of science, or we will perish. This is the question posed by history.
After Stalin's death, discussions about developing a scientific theory ceased.
All the people who had been appointed by Stalin to positions of leadership in the party and state were demoted to secondary and tertiary positions,
Deliberate actions to abandon Stalin's legacy led to significant challenges in the crucial area of ideology.
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