Nader Furrha

Sunday, Aug 9, 2009

Russians Military Importance Rests

The Russian military in 1947 was of crucial importance to the

citizens of SovietUnion. The government also believed that the Soviet

Union military was the most important in its country’s success. Russia

is a poor country but what they do have money for is their military.

They spend so much money on their military that they don’t use

enough on its agriculture and its industries. They had very low money

to get food they needed government help. They are going to cut down

on military spending to use more money on agriculture and their

economy. That shows you how desperate the soviet government was.

They had to cut down on something very important to them like their

army to support the economy that was at one of its lowest its been at

in a long time. Even though the economy was down military was still

very important toits citizens as well as the government. The

importance of military strength to the Soviet Union in a fact that they

had to cut back on it to help with agriculture and the economy shows

how desperate the Russian’s situation was.

The Russian’s take their military very seriously becauseit is very

important to them. In the picture on page 110 of John Steinbeck’s A

Russian Journal there is a little boy and his father staring at a large

military tank. The tank once belonged to the Germans and was taken

by Soviet Army. As they stare they seem to be very amazed at the

type of weapons and military accessories their Russian army has. It

excites the little boy and his father to see what a powerful army they

have. In the picture to show how important their military is to them

they have their military equipmentlaid out for the citizens to see what

they captured. Kids from Russia were having boat races to show how

excited they were when their father came back home with military

equipment from Germany. Russian government spends so much

money on their military so that its army will be the strongest and they

forget about the Russian agriculture. They need to begin to notice that

their economy is going down because they don’t have enough money

to support it because they spend so much on their military. Stressing

to you how serious Russia’s army is about taking care of their land with

military action. Then the government realizes that their people need

help. They need a government back up.

A decrease in armed forces takes place in the Soviet Union. Not

a heavy strong decrease but a steady decrease to get things moving

on the right path. This steady decrease contributes to the labor pool.

The government also then increases expenditures on industry and

agriculture.* This will give a lot of money to the farms to help people

grow crops to raise animals and produce consumer goods. The

increase in spending money on scientific research and investigation,

which takes advantage of tremendous strides made in many scientific

fields during world war two.* The plan the soviets had of cutting down

on the military expense was to strengthen greatly, the industryand the

agriculture. The Russian agriculture that suffered its worst drought in

fifty years will receive a lot of the money from the military cuts. The

agriculture was at the lowest of low at this point and the money that it

will receive will help greatly not only to the farms but to the economy.

One of the most important and revealing increases comes under the

heading communicationsand transportations. This is huge for the

citizens of Russia. This was a turn that helps the economy through one

of its roughest times and showed that the government did think about

its people. Social security payment plans have increased to a new

level. The progress made by Russian government helped get more

students in schools whichmeant higher educations. Also more jobs

became available for the citizens and the country began to bounce

back from its industry and agricultural drought.

After all this cutting back on military expenses the economy and

agriculturestarted getting better for the Russian’s. The picture on page

176 0f JohnSteinbeck’s A Russian Journal shows the citizens of Russia

getting farm work done. In the picture it’s a very large farm with its

own schools and its own orchestras(Steinbeck176). In the picture the

men look like they are conditioning the land and the women are also
helping with the tea picking. Steinbeck says its because the women’s

fingers were clever. The state farm in the picture looks like it ran like

an American factory. It has the manager who runs the factory to make

sure things run smoothly. It has its employees doing the actual work to

produce food and goods. In the picture each family had its own little

apartment. Its looks like it’sa daily routine for them. The men and the

women both go off to work everyday to support themselves and their

children. The picture shows they have a lot of land for the people to

work and theira lot of people getting their job done. The women

moved across the fields in long lines and sang as they worked and they

were very pictorial( Steinbeck176). The photo seems like it only grows

one thing and that is tea. It was like a factory for growing tea. Like in

America we have lots of factories but they all do different things. In this

picture the product being produced is tea. In Wayne, MI they have a

factory that only produces ford cars. This compares to the tea factory

they have in Russia. A difference is in Russia its not in closed doors its

all outside. Another different thing is that in Russia they shared the

profits. So its not like they got a paycheck every week showing how

much they made. They make the money then split it.

Russia’s economy was at a low and they were struggling

terribly. The government made the changes needed to be made and

turned it all around, Slowly but surely. They took something that was

very important and dear to them and cut back on its expenses towards
it to give it to some thing that was in more desperate need of it like its

agriculture and its industry. The importance of its military strength was

on hold to put its agriculture and its economy back where it needs to

be.

http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/pqdweb?index=5&did=88
759243&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQ
T=309&VName=HNP&TS=1249784607&clientId=17822( New York
Times),
John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal, with photography by Robert Capa,
published by penguin group, copyright John Steinbeck 1948.