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Guillermo Paz better. Working for the good of the soviet people and or them. When ww2 came Stalin was seen as a war leader. This was because Russia had produced so much that they where heavily prepared for war. In the other hand there were failures to this plans. As said before statistics proved the improvement, but if you look at the second five-year of oil, which target was 46.8 million tons, they could only go up to 28.5 from 21.4. This shows the failure of the hard work they made. Workers where so stressed to work hard everyday, that not always they could reach the target. This worker that were tired and could not reach their target people saw them as a threat to the country. This persons who where looked like they were not committed to the cause they where punished, very harsh punishments, which sometimes even involved death. Working conditions where terrible. The industrialising cities were barely cities. There where no roads or sewers, which meant a terrible smell. Soviets were so obsessed with accomplishing their target that they started to use the machinery in unsafe ways. Pushing it over the safe limits, which many workers had to suffer. Many died or got serious injuries. Workers where put into danger, the working conditions where terrible, but they still had to work. If they didnt want to work or did not work as hard they were arrested, many of them with no reason. Factory owners started to fear. The targets where so high that people had to work for long hours a day. No mater what the conditions there was hard labour, people where really suffering when working. At the end we could say that this went both ways. It had success and failures. As success we could say that they did reach the aims, showing the great improvements they made. They had produced a lot so they could introduce the tractor into the peasant accelerating the rate of production. Farming machinery improved and people no more were dying of hunger. Also the massive production made, was able Russia to be prepared for war. They had many military improvements. But again we can see the failures of it. The forced and hard labour implement to worker by superiors and even work partners. Generating fear for people. Making them work hard for long hours a day. Putting them into terrible condition and expecting them to work as hard as they could. So I think that Stalin economic policies had a bit of both. In one hand they had success and in the other the hand failures. Showing that they where very good on accomplishing the target but did no care about other aspects which generated a failure. So I think the policies are not the best but did work.