Stalin's+Pride

//"It is sometimes asked whether it is not possible to slow down the tempo somewhat, to put a check on the movement. No, comrades, it is not possible! The tempo must not be reduced! On the contrary, we must increase it... // //To slacken the temp would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten. But we do not want to be beaten. No, we refuse to be beaten! One feature of the history of old Russia was the continual beatings she suffered because of her backwardness... // //Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? If you do not want this, you must put an end to its backwardness in the shortest possible time... // //We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us." //

Did Napoleon order the rebuilding of the windmill in the middle of winter because it needed to be done, or because his pride demanded it be so? He would surely realize that after the failure of the windmill or its real life counterpart, the Five-Year Plan, that now is not the correct time to reinstitute yet another demanding plan.

Response Christine K