A Report on the Allocation of Ministry Funds During the 4th Five Year Plan
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Chart Detailing Expenditures During the Reconstruction Plan
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| Infrastructure | Heavy Industry | LCI | Agriculture | Services | Military |
| 1945H1 | 17,65% | 34,56% | 19,12% | 8,82% | 12,50% | 7,35% |
| 1945H2 | 29,46% | 26,36% | 23,26% | 9,30% | 5,43% | 6,20% |
| 1946H1 | 35,63% | 25,10% | 19,03% | 2,43% | 12,96% | 4,86% |
| 1946H2 | 24,11% | 28,37% | 10,64% | 8,51% | 7,09% | 21,28% |
| 1947H1 | 28,18% | 27,49% | 20,27% | 11,00% | 9,62% | 3,44% |
| 1947H2 | 28,26% | 34,78% | 19,57% | 9,42% | 7,97% | 0,00% |
| 1948H1 | 28,86% | 29,53% | 20,13% | 13,42% | 8,05% | 0,00% |
| 1948H2 | 29,29% | 28,57% | 18,57% | 11,43% | 12,14% | 0,00% |
| 1949H1 | 42,55% | 31,21% | 14,89% | 2,84% | 8,51% | 0,00% |
| 1949H2 | 38,85% | 30,22% | 15,83% | 0,00% | 15,11% | 0,00% |
| TOTAL | 30,25% | 29,67% | 18,09% | 7,81% | 9,91% | 4,27% |
Authored by Nikolai Voznesensky, Deputy Minister of the MNKh
Published January 4th 1950
As the war came to its conclusion, the monumental task of reconstruction fell upon the Ministry. Despite doubts expressed by luminaries in the Party advocating for intensification in the industrial sector, a softer set of goals was set accounting for the devastation wrought upon our economy and the need for the build up of other sectors and projects that would not directly translate to an increase in the output of tangible goods. We have, however, achieved those goals we set out for ourselves in full, vindicating the direction chosen for the development of the Soviet economy and appeasing those who had doubts with a general decrease in spending, allowing for the Party to pursue other projects and the civilian sector to catch up.
With the ambitious promise to re-gauge the entire Eastern and Central European rail networks to Soviet standard, as well as the modernization of our own domestic rail system, expansion of housing to accommodate the drastic drawdown of mobilized personnel, construction of dams to power our industry and the modernization and expansion of water systems, this plan has bucked the trend and has had Infrastructure be the most funded sector in the plan, narrowly overtaking heavy industry in importance with around 30.25% of all funds allocated to it. Much work has been done in improving the infrastructure of our nation, increasing throughput, improving health and ensuring that the Red Army can swiftly respond to threats in the West, despite the unfortunate setbacks with the ambitious DC linkage project and the tragedies in Chirkey and Ashgabat.
The development of Heavy Industry has, as with other plans, been unfortunately superseded in priority by other sectors. It has, nonetheless, received comparable levels of funding to infrastructure, allowing us to do some important progress. Of note, has been the massive increase in mining of gold, which has allowed us to pay back war debts in as favourable a regime as possible, and though attrition in the early stages of this project has been an unfortunate, it has been mitigated by a steady supply of prisoners of war. We have also continued with the development of planned cities, with Stolyenskoye, Novokuznetsk and Zlatoust providing an important base for our industrial development, fuelled by an ever increasing amount of power plants.
With the end of the war allowing for a transfer of funds from military programs, and the setting of ambitious goals for the production of consumer goods, the Light Industrial and Chemical sector has performed well. Advancements in the field of pesticides and the expansion of fertilizer production have greatly increased agricultural yields, and the former has allowed us to decisively strike against malaria. The transfer of pharmaceutical enterprises as reparations and increased exports of novel pigments have also provided much needed funds for the union, and the production of textiles, plastics and other products has greatly expanded access to consumer goods for the general population.
With the demobilization of the Red Army following the end of the conflict, the Service sector has suddenly shot up in importance, and as such, funding has increased accordingly. It has provided us with an important labor sink for demobilized men, ensuring that those who could not be employed in the industrial or agricultural sectors could at least be educated in the numerous new polytechical institutes in order to better serve the Union in the future. We have also made important strides in healthcare, with the licensing and development of vaccines greatly reducing the impact of disease in the economy. No less important was the creation of closed cities in order to take advantage of the technical and intellectual expertise of those who served our enemies during the war.
Funding allotted to the Agricultural sector has followed that of wartime spending, with the restoration of the war ravaged countryside in the Ukraine and Belarus SSRs finally being completed, allowing us to focus on more conventional industrial development. Furthermore, with advancements in pesticide production, the incidence of malaria has been steadily eradicated from the Union, decreasing fatalities and wasted man hours on recovery, as well as allowing for the expansion of cultivated land to previously infested areas.
With the transfer of the responsibility of dealing with Military Procurement to the Minister of Defense in the middle of the plan, as well as the end of the war, the military received the least amount of funding from the Ministry. Despite that, we have managed to make important advances in the field of aviation whilst it was under our purview, with the entirely indigenous Lyulka jet engine having the potential to completely revolutionize air combat, and allowing us to match the West in the development of air frames.
