On the preservation and development of the horse population

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Appendix No. 6 to p. 72/17 pr. PB No. 102.

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of 27.V.1932

On the preservation and development of the horse population.

The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the highest Soviet bodies have repeatedly pointed out the need to " resolutely rebuff the tendencies of underestimating the role of horse-drawn traction at this stage of the collective farm movement " (resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of January 5, 1930 No.

The 16th Party Congress set for all Party organizations the task of " caring for the horse and creating special state farms and horse breeding associations ."

Despite these instructions, the Central Committee is forced to note that in the majority of collective farms, state farms and city enterprises, the proper care for horses has not yet been created and their normal reproduction has not been established. Local bodies have failed to ensure the implementation in practice of the Party's instructions in this most important area of ​​the national economy. As a result, in most republics, territories and regions of the Union there is a decrease in the horse population and a deterioration in its quality. The harmful consequences of this phenomenon both in agriculture, where the horse is of exceptional importance, and in industry, where horse transport takes an important place, and in the defense of the country, where the cavalry remains a powerful weapon, are obvious to everyone.

The Central Committee of the Party once again confirms the categorical implementation of the need to " combine a tractor with a horse in field work " (resolution of the VI Congress of Soviets) and invites Party organizations to achieve the proper attitude of all economic organizations to the horse population. Conserving horses, improving their quality, organizing proper feeding and reproduction should be given the same attention that is shown in relation to planting campaigns.

The Central Committee invites the district committees, regional committees, regional committees and the Central Committee of the national communist parties to systematically hear reports on the state of the horse population and take timely measures to preserve and develop it, guided by the decisions of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of December 7, 1931 and May 27, 1932.

The Central Committee warns that a predatory and negligent attitude towards horses, causing their mass mortality, will be viewed as a crime against the interests of the national economy and will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Central Committee of the CPSU (b) .

May 27, 1932