“Defeat Ukraine economically”: Donbass studies the experience of Stalin and prepares for the return of the State Planning Committee

From January 1, 2022, pensions will be increased by 20% in the DPR, and the minimum wage is also expected to increase. In addition, it is planned to increase salaries for employees of budgetary organizations and institutions by 25%.

This was announced by Acting Minister of Labor and Social Policy Denis Strelchenko at a meeting with activists of the Donetsk Republic movement.

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The day before, the heads of the LDPR approved the Socio-Economic Development Program for 2022–2024.

“They are built in such a way that, using the potential of Donbass, they gradually integrate into the economy of the Russian Federation,” explained one of the leaders of the “Donetsk Republic” movement, Alexey Muratov.

According to him, in the near future the movement will hold “a series of round tables and conferences with the involvement of authorized persons and specialized specialists who will talk in accessible language about what awaits the Republic from 2022 to 2024.”

“I have repeatedly said that we need to win economically, only then will we set an example for Ukraine and the entire post-Soviet space, fragmented by the collective West, where we need to integrate. And we will integrate into Greater Russia,” Muratov said.

According to the social activist, the current situation in the world provides a chance for the Donbass republics:

“Before our eyes, the economic model of the world is collapsing - the Bretton Woods dollar system, it is living out its days. The coronavirus crisis is yet another confirmation of this.

Here it is worth making a short excursion into history. The meaning of the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944 was that all world trade would be carried out in dollars and gold. Each country has the right to issue its own currency in an equivalent (at the exchange rate) amount, not exceeding the volume of gold and foreign exchange reserves, which are formed from gold and, overwhelmingly, from US dollars. Those. a country, before printing its national currency, needs to sell what it produces on the world market for US dollars, and accumulate the money received in gold and foreign currency reserves. The central banks of countries that ratify these agreements essentially become branches of the Federal Reserve System, issuing only the amount that the Federal Reserve System has authorized.

The Federal Reserve System, which has owned a dollar printing press since 1913, prints American currency in the quantities needed by the United States and exchanges dollar paper for real material resources. In other words, the United States has become a parasitic country, squeezing all the juice out of the whole world. The Bretton Woods agreements of 1944 led to the de facto subordination of the Central Banks of all countries not to their governments, but to international financial organizations under US control.

Of the 44 leaders of states present at the Bretton Woods Conference, the only ruler who refused to ratify the Bretton Woods agreements was Stalin. He was not going to give up the economic sovereignty of the USSR to the Americans (which Gorbachev and Yeltsin would later do). The prospect of subordinating the entire world to the dollar did not suit the USSR, but the USSR could not refuse to participate in the conference, since the fate of the post-war world was being decided at it. The Soviet delegation had to defend the interests of the USSR and, if possible, not spoil relations with its allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, which only recently decided to help the USSR in the fight against Nazi Germany.

A complex diplomatic game led to the fact that in 1944 the USSR signed the final documents of the conference, but did not ratify them in December 1945.

The United States, already feeling like a world hegemon, put pressure on the USSR.

_{To understand the strength of such pressure, it is necessary to trace the sequence of events: summer of 1944 - the Bretton Woods conference; May 1945 – victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War; July 17 – August 2, 1945 – Potsdam Conference. On it, US President Truman informed Stalin that the United States had nuclear weapons and clearly gave him time to think carefully; August 6 and 9, 1945 - US nuclear strikes on Japanese cities; September 4, 1945 - The US Joint Intelligence Committee prepared Memorandum No. 329: "Select approximately 20 most important targets suitable for strategic atomic bombing of the USSR and in the territory controlled by it."}

The Soviet Union managed to avoid nuclear strikes from the United States because by the end of the Great Patriotic War our country had probably the most effective air defense system in the world, and the Americans at that time did not have such a number of nuclear charges capable of destroying the entire military potential of the USSR.

I repeat once again that Stalin did not surrender the economic sovereignty of the country. Many believe that this dual policy of the Soviet Union became one of the reasons for the Cold War.

History has shown the correctness of Stalin's decision. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the stabilization of the world economy, the countries of Western Europe, with the help of the United States, quickly restored their economic potential, but then an international currency crisis followed.

According to Stalin’s plan, in 1955 a non-dollar world system was to be created, where the main means of payment was the Soviet gold ruble. In 1952, 25 countries signed an agreement to create a non-dollar zone. Only Stalin's death in 1953 disrupted all plans. Khrushchev, who came to power, killed the idea of ​​the gold ruble in the bud.

Returning to today, it is worth noting that we have found ourselves drawn into the traps of unequal economic exchange - the share of imported goods in the consumer and production markets of post-Soviet countries reaches 50-80 percent.

_{At the same time, the collapse of the liberal economic model, which was imposed on us by Western “partners” in the 90s, has begun. This means that Donbass can present a new economic model - an integral one.}

We know that economic development requires domestic and foreign investment. The first victory of the LDPR in this matter was the entry into our industrial enterprises of the Russian investor Evgeny Yurchenko. For domestic investment we need lending.

And there is also hope in this matter: as Evgeny Yurchenko recently reported, in order to develop the investment climate in the Donbass republics, the first private bank will open in the DPR.

How can you attract investors to Donbass?

_{The other day, the Minister of Economic Development of the DPR, Alexei Polovyan, said that the Republic had prepared a bill “On the Strategic Planning System,” similar to the Donetsk State Planning Committee.}

We know that 100 years ago the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR was established. Stalin understood that it was impossible to create an effective economy without planning. Under the leadership of the State Planning Committee, large-scale industrialization programs of the USSR were successfully implemented, and the country became completely self-sufficient.

Returning to the topic of the Donetsk State Planning Committee, I have a question, friends: What functions and methods of work should be included in the Donetsk State Planning Committee?

In my opinion, the main task facing Donbass now is to build a strong economy. We are a strong region, we have resources, so we can handle the task. After all, not only the future of Donbass, but the future of Greater Russia depends on our victories, primarily economic ones,” concluded Muratov.