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During all the five-year periods group “A” was developing at outpacing rates as was required by the strict law of primary growth of production of means of production. Only in the 1st five-year period group “A” outpaced slighdy group “B”; these were the years of 1928, 1929-32. In the second five-year period, 1933-37, a preference development of group “B” was planned but was not fulfilled. According to the plan for the third five-year period, the branches of the war industry were forced to develop. During the subsequent five-year periods, up to the tenth period, both in the plan and in the accounts, group “A” outpaced group “B” as before, but the lag of group “B” decreased (the difference in the rates of growth decreased). For many years, our industry was oriented on the outpacing growth of means of production as compared to the output of consumer goods. For decades, the investments into the consumer sector of economy were considerably smaller than those into the sector producing technology. “Economics for people” does not occupy a place it deserves. For the last fifty years, we have stubbornly created “economics for economics’ sake," which coerced nature and mind and impoverished people. From the prewar years, the opinion prevailed that the extension of personal consumption lowered the rates of growth of the national income and undermined industrial accumulation, and, therefore, we must work for a long time to develop a powerful base and only then sharply raise the living standards. These provisions and promises lasted for years, from one five-year period to another. As a result, our country produced half as much oil as the USA, smelted twice as much steel, produced 1.8 times as much mineral fertilizer, produced 6.3 times as many tractors and other intermediary goods as the USA and lagged considerably behind the USA in the output of consumer goods. More than one generation of planners shared the belief in this saving “breakthrough.” This belief is reflected in all the long-term forecasts of the development of the national economy. It was planned, for every period being forecasted, to raise to the maximum level the accumulation norm (the proportion of the national income used for accumulation) or keep it at a high level in order to achieve a high consumption in the final analysis. It is time now to turn over the pyramid of priorities in the economic policy and in practice. For decades the needs of the war industry and the demands of the heavy industry were at its top and the branches that directly served to satisfy the requirements of the population occupied the last place (although the slogan “Everything for the people!” was constandy declared). As concerns the corresponding correction of the investment and of the structural policy for the purpose of accelerating the development of group “B” industries, this has not yet occurred. Of all the investments into the national economy the share of capital investments into the group “B” industries keeps falling (Table 6). 1 2 6