The Pests

Representatives of various groups of the animal world

bringing harm across different sectors.

The pests sense the last days of their existence

and are forced to resist with all their strength, by all means.

They include primarily

certain kinds of worms, insects,

mammals (among rodents and predators), and birds.

The pests controlled the ore,

the factories, the gold,

the largest industrial lands,

the money, the finest forest estates,

And possessed all the necessary means

for extracting enormous profits

on the basis of the most ruthless,

unrestrained exploitation of the Ural workers.

The pests feed on plant sap

and on individual parts of plants.

The destructive destruction of grain is also

of paramount importance

in the arsenal of pests.

The granary weevil, the flour beetle,

the grain moth, the hide beetles,

mice, rats.

Delayed shipments, lack of repairs,

the deadening of capital funding,

the blocking of investments,

the creation of disproportions between workshops.

The wireworm, the Swedish fly,

the sawfly beetle, aphids, moths,

the wheat fly,

the gooseberry sawfly.

A driver-pest,

while transporting one and a half tons of grain,

buried a can of gasoline inside it

and burned all the grain.

Incorrect calculation of tempos and plans,

the preparation of metal, fuel,

energy and food crises,

espionage in favor of foreign states.

A Party infiltrator —

a kulak-agronomist named Balabanov —

during the wheat harvest

ordered the grain collecting tools

to be removed from the reaper,

which resulted in major losses.

Decisive preventive and exterminatory measures

must be carried out against all types of pests

in a planned manner.

Fumigating them in storage buildings

with carbon disulfide and sulfur dioxide.

Infecting them with typhus

using cultures of typhoid bacteria.

To give not the slightest political concession

to this bourgeois stratum and to suppress it mercilessly.

Constructing trapping ditches

with vertical walls,

crushing caterpillars

in places of their greatest concentration,

using special traps.

Spraying or dusting

affected plants with various poisons or insecticides.

Scattering poisoned baits,

irrigation, treatment with emulsions

to destroy larvae or pupae inside.

In the struggle against pests

a great role was played by the OGPU —

the Joint State Political Directorate,

the vigilant sentinel of the proletarian dictatorship.

Measures predominantly chemical,

using powerful technical equipment:

motor sprayers and dusters, gas chambers, airplanes.

As a result of the implementation of the Five-Year Plan,

we succeeded in driving out completely

the last remnants of hostile classes

from their production positions,

crushing the kulaks,

and preparing the ground for their elimination.

But this is not enough.

Only we, the workers

of the worldwide Great Army of Labor!

have the right to possess the land —

but the parasites never shall!

The text uses articles from the Ural Soviet

Encyclopedia - Pests in Agriculture and Pests, as

well as the text of the song The Internationale,

translated by A. Ya. Kots.