The Smoke of the Chimneys is the breath of the Wolverines
Today, Comrades, we come to you to remind you of the oft-told story of Joseph Stalin. Facing a domestic industrial complex ravaged by the Russian Civil War, Stalin embarked on a program of forced, brutal industrialization. Over the course of nine years, the nation’s coal output (which fueled their manufacturing) more than tripled, employment sky-rocketed, the population’s education level grew exponentially, and vast manufacturing plans began to dot the landscape in Moscow, Gorky, Stalingrad, and Cheliablinsk. Investment in higher education grew vastly, as the Soviet nation refused to rely on foreign help in their technological advances.
This program wasn’t without its costs – minors often needed to work 16 hours a day to meet quotas (failure to do so could result in a charge of treason), safety wasn’t even a minor concern, and the reallocation of resources from farming to industry sparked a devastating famine.
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