Friendly Hands

A general movement forward in which all the Union Republics make steady progress by co-operating fruitfully with one another is characteristic of the economic development of the multi-national Soviet socialist state.

In the present period of transition from socialism to communism fraternal co-operation and mutual assistance are becoming still closer and more comprehensive.

The Communist Party strives constantly to extend and consolidate this co-operation as it contributes to the rapid development of the various republics and enriches the peoples of each republic spiritually.

Latvian industrial establishments now have mutual trade relations with seventy economic districts. There is probably no place in the far-flung Soviet Union that does not use goods produced by Latvia's radio engineering industry.

Electric trains manufactured by the car-building works of Riga are found all over the country. Bicycles produced by the Sarkana Zvaigene factory are highly popular. Linoleum made in Liepaja is used in railway carriages and steamship cabins.

Latvia supplies the Union Republics with hydrometric instruments, tram cars, electrical appliances, refrigerator units, braking equipment, compressors, telephone stations, lubricating equipment, electric installation equipment, and building materials.

Other economic districts, in their turn, give Latvia great assistance. There is probably almost no sphere of industry in Latvia to which friendly hands in other republics have not contributed.

Latvia annually brings in a total of more than 4,000 million roubles' worth of raw materials, equipment and various other goods. The Ukraine provides Latvia with piping, hardware and coal, Azerbaijan with oil and oil products, the Urals, Moscow and Leningrad with steel, pig iron, machine-tools, motor vehicles, etc.

Some 1,000 different items go to the VEF electrical works and the Popov radio factory alone.

The Central Asian republics send Latvia cotton fibres; wool comes from Turkmenia, the Ukraine and the Russian Federation; Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation provide staple fibre; Byelorussia and Uzbekistan send rayon and silk.

"Latvia—Our Dream is Coming True" was published by Soviet Booklets, London, England, in December, 1959,
as part of the series "THE FIFTEEN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF TODAY AND TOMMORROW."
We do not endorse the Soviet account of historical events or their circumstances contained therein as factual.
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