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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition

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Right it's now been exactly two hours.

I dunno what all you are doing up there, but according to the seconds counter on my computer clock the moratorium is up. :p

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Just making sure I put in an official vote after the moratorium.

I hope everyone's aware that this won't remotely be sunshine and rainbows, if we want to have the slightest chance of surviving we're going to have to completely ignore seasonal constraints and such. Be ready for a lot of winter construction with sad journal entries.
 
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Relax, the Nazis are going to invade soon. Hopefully, we will just get drafted into the army and this whole thing will be swept under the rug.
 
If anyone has got the time, please write omakes to help Hitler win against France. If the Wehrmacht crashes against the Allies in 1940 then Mikoyan will 99% get Purged.
 
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If anyone has got the time, please write omakes to help Hitler win against France. If the Wehrmacht crashes against the Allies in 1940 then Mikoyan will 99% get Purged.
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Look, we don't need Hitler to beat France. That's just a means to an end. We need Mikoyan to not get purged and replaced by someone worse.

We need, "wait, what in the world the just happened to the soviet economy/building guys?" omakes.
 
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and get some bonuses for those brave staistictians.

They could have lied about the numbers and become part of the problem yet instead they did their jobs even though it would likely mean the end of them.
 
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Canon Omake: The Mikoyan Speech
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    • The Mikoyan Speech​
    Alternatively know as Mikoyan's first speech, The Mikoyan Speech was delivered on December 30th following the disastrous results of the 1939 Great Audit of the Soviet Economy. It is widely recognized as one of Mikoyan's greatest examples of oratory.

    Background: Prior to the audit, the VSNKh was viewed as an "Agency of Miracles" and more cynically the "Department of All Things" within the Soviet Union and abroad, whose adherence to factual data and the protection of expertise was enshrined by Sergo Ordzhonikidze and bolstered by Mikoyan. While the Five Year Plans set seemingly fantastical goals just beyond reality, the USSR seemingly managed to empirically and dramatically scrape by the targets; augmenting the VSNKh statistical reports were seperate statistics from the People's Commissariat for Health on the overall health and nutrition of Soviet citizens (an agency whose medical professionals were trained in VSNKh-constructed facilities); western journalists who after repeated and seemingly less restrictive tours across the Union grudgingly conceding the standards of living had risen dramatically in a time of global economic collapse and the stunning Stalingrad Hydroelectric Station and Magnitogorsk Steel manufactories that smashed world records and made a mockery of Hoover Dam's ambitions. Nevertheless, discrepancies were suspected even within the agency itself; prior to statistical planning Bazarov was a fierce critic of Soviet methodology and it was an open secret that some corners were cut and something was off with the numbers, though as a whole they were accepted as reliable. What no one expected was the sheer scale in which corruption and book-cooking ran through the Soviet Union: factories were reporting output in excess of 60% of reality, workers that didn't existed listed on employment lists. In spite of the odds and the risk of death for himself and everyone who authored the plan, Mikoyan pushed through with the landmark reforms.

    The Speech: While numerous versions of the speech existed due to many VSNKh employees preferring to remember it instead of writing it down so as to avoid running afowl of the authorities, the one currently accepted as fact was a typewritten paper produced as Mikoyan spoke. In his twilight years, Mikoyan admitted that the speach wasn't the spur of the moment act may in the room believed. He rehearsed two "outlines": one assuming only minor discrepancies and one assuming systematic failures.

    "Comrades, I speak to you in the wake of recent reports to issue a call to reason. Let no man in this room deny the perils of our time, and let no man deny that the fate of the Union now lies within our hands and our minds."

    "When Sergo Ordzhkonikidze rose to head the VSNKh, he did so without a bureaucracy to stand on, without a panel of experts to guide him, without the raw power of the GULAG labor force, without even a college education. He had the same choice standing before us today: submit to the whims of the ideologues, the partisan politicians, the wrekers; place their views beyond the truth, capitulate to pseudoscientists who would lead millions to their deaths and modify the figures so as to complete impossible plans or in pursuit of petty self interest."

    "Sergo refused the clarion call of power, refused the siren's song of partisanship. He constructed an Industrial and Scientific Council of those who knew best for the betterment of all. Ensured the farmers knew practical agriculture before the history of the Union so as to end forever the cyclical famines of the tsars. Placed academic rigor at the forefront of the Pioneer Program and purified empirical sciences through a system of universities and closed cities. Sergo even went so far as to put the life of himself as well as the VSNKh on the line: It was Sergo who worked long hours alongisde his fellow technocrats, it was Sergo who purged the insane pseudoscientists, it was Sergo who led the charge against radical collectivization, it was Sergo who crushed those seeking a repeal of partimaximum."

    "It was Sergo who died delivering the first five year plan to Stalin, who died building the greatest nation in the history of man. And without Sergo seeking truth from facts, comrades, none of us would be here today."

    "Today, we face that same choice: to champion the truth so that the Union may light the world, or to cosign lies and leave the great work of Marx and Lenin in darkness. Everyone in this room is familiar with the bourgeois system of debt interest and how it traps the proletariat: so too do falsehoods. By their very nature, falsehoods build upon falsehoods and one false fact contaminates all: a supervisor lying on the amount of steel his shift produces, a factory overseer modifying the figures further, the regional head falsifying to the VSNKh...and the VSNKh falsifying to the Union. Individually these are all minor discrepancies upon the great proletarian engine we have forged, but imagine what would happen to the Union 50 years and 10 five year plans from now. Imagine what will happen if the falsehoods don't stop. If we do not stop this now, some of us will grow old just in time to watch the Union die."

    "It is in this darkened room that we will make our stand here, comrades. The statistics stand. The fate of over 180 million Soviets and the fate of their children and their children's children hangs in the balance. We will not fail. We cannot fail."
    Legacy: TO BE EDITED UPON THE CONCLUSION OF EVENTS
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    We all talked big game about it, spool up those omake printers!
    It's hypocritical framing this in part as pursuit of facts, but the winners write the history books.
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