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dated February 19, 1957: Khrushchev's new plan

The Soviet Union is to embark this year on a massive plan for dispersal of industry, aiming ultimately at the creation of independent economic regions stretching across the vast length of her territory. It will inevitably render Russia less vulnerable to the crippling results of atomic attacks on highly concentrated industrial centres such as are found in Britain and Western Europe. The plan was proposed in a report by the Soviet Communist Party chief, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, to the plenary session of the party's Central Committee held in Moscow this week. He said the master plan must be ready for approval by the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) by the middle of summer. It will carry Stalin's dispersal plan - the wartime movement of industry behind the Ural Mountains against the German invasion - a giant step further.

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