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If Joseph Stalin had set lower production quotas for his first Five-Year Plan, he would have
won more public support for his command economy.
achieved better results and conserved resources.
achieved less impressive results, but at less cost to workers.
met his goals, but workers would have worked longer hours.
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achieved less impressive results, but at less cost to workers.
Reason: Lower, more realistic quotas would have reduced the extreme coercion, overtime, and use of penal labor needed to try to hit the very ambitious targets. That would have meant smaller headline industrial gains and slower collectivization outcomes, but also fewer human costs, less waste and falsification of statistics. The regime’s political and propaganda goals — not just economic logic — were the main reason quotas stayed high.
Reason: Lower, more realistic quotas would have reduced the extreme coercion, overtime, and use of penal labor needed to try to hit the very ambitious targets. That would have meant smaller headline industrial gains and slower collectivization outcomes, but also fewer human costs, less waste and falsification of statistics. The regime’s political and propaganda goals — not just economic logic — were the main reason quotas stayed high.
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