English Translation

28a) - 14 - the development of industry created a dispute between Stalin and Trotsky. The latter wanted to place all finances in the support of the world revolution in order to create a way out of the undeveloped Russian industry by joining the advanced industrial countries of the West. Stalin, on the other hand, was in favour of building up the armaments industry in order to obtain a solid basis for carrying out the resolution "on the tops of the bayonets" (angels) to Western Europe. However, other complexes had been raised on issues between Stalin and Trotsky, for example whether the permanent revolution should be preferred, whether the "octo-ber revolution" was a socialist, whether or not the SU government could hold itself in a capitalist clasp and whether the SU. By its own means and within national borders, the contradiction between city and country could be overcome; but the cardinal question and thus the main object of dispute might have been the question of the establishment and expansion of Russian industry, in particular the armaments industry. Stalin won, Protzki was exiled. This was the period of the so-called "planning economy" and the five-year plans, which basically served primarily to build up the armaments industry. This must be taken into account if the new industrial plants are to be considered as non-conomic or unfavorable.