AN: Done a little tidying up of the thread, I had a name wrong and the threadmarks were beginning to annoy me.
This was a real journal, annoyingly I can't find many primary source documents for proper rhetoric and the maintenance of verisimilitude. If anyone can point me to some cache of them, it would be useful. All I can find is this stuff; 'laughable to the modern-day reader in their propagandistic optimism'. Feel free to ask about anything unclear, I've made a few obscure references. 'Tselinograd' is also a real place, and is now Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.
Anglo-Soviet Journal 'USSR in Construction' - 12th of November, 1948
As this journal has always attempted to present the living conditions and activities of the Soviet Union, particularly focusing on the rebuilding of industry in Moscow, a recent departure from normal discourse bears merit. A joint announcement by the People's Commissariat of Light Industry and the Committee on Matters of Architecture has led to the creation of the Administrative Committee for Expansion, to be based in the shadow of the iron mountain of Magnitogorsk, taking lessons from the construction of that great and diligent city, which was extensively planned to perfection before one brick was laid, the People's Architects having scorned the confused and chaotic attempts of the British and Americans to exploit the honest steel worker and alienate him from his fellows.
Comrade Kosygin has described in greater detail plans for the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature, particularly noting the progress on healing the wounds of the Great Patriotic War, and in Comrade Stalin's words to 'still more strengthen the power of the state and people'. No doubt citizens have already seen the multi-coloured carpet of millions of flowers, an enduring symbol of pulsating life, and the glorious beginning of the Seven Sisters, a testament to the strength and resolve of Moscow's citizens.
The Committee for Expansion will deny the unnatural grimace of the capitalist city, and reject the bourgeoisie pride of naked egoism! Instead, barren and untended lands east of the Urals, and among those communities not yet fully integrated into the People's Effort, will be settled with joyous volunteers. Offices, theatres and harmonious industry will coexist in the climax of Socialist Realist city planning, each spire shining in soaring upward flight.
Even transportation between these new fortresses of community will be unified, with the Comras' plan calling for each city to be serviced by a special locomotive station and incorporating a single entrance and exit for the greatest efficiency and speed. The Great Transformation is scheduled to begin in late summer of 1949, and will require the recruitment of almost 50,000 new tractorists, but the Comras will no doubt fill these places within weeks, with the countryside populated swiftly by the jubilant Komsomol! We eagerly look forward to reporting from Tselinograd's planned Palace of Youth when construction is complete!