“Cadres decide everything,” once said a well-known statesman who gave personnel policy great importance. Often, those who repeat this catchphrase, which has become catchphrase, give it a broad meaning ...
“Cadres decide everything,” once said a well-known statesman who attached great importance to personnel policy. Often, those who repeat this catchphrase, which has become catchphrase, give it a broad meaning: it is very important not only to correctly place personnel in positions, but also to stimulate them in the right way - optimally in terms of the ratio of staff performance and the cost of maintaining this efficiency at a sufficiently high level. In other words, increasing the productivity of employees, while spending a minimum amount of money, time and other resources, should be singled out as one of the tasks of any manager, including the IT manager.
Financial incentives play an important but not decisive role in this process. First, the work of not all employees will be directly proportional to the money they are paid. Ross Perot, founder and chairman of the board of directors of the American company Perot Systems, advises against paying employees a lot, citing the fact that "big money kills brains." At first glance, his advice is paradoxical, to say the least. However, it was developed as a result of long-term observations: sooner or later, highly paid employees begin to take their salaries for granted and, moreover, turn on the "counter" for almost any of their efforts that they make for the benefit of their company. Overly mercantile employees are unlikely to be able to bring much benefit to the enterprise.
Secondly, in addition to monetary income, IT specialists are interested in a whole range of factors: the possibility of professional and career growth, the implementation of cognitive and research activities, participation in interesting projects, communication with highly qualified colleagues, professional self-realization, as well as the prospects of working in their chosen direction of IT and company business, etc.
Talented techies highly appreciate the atmosphere of creativity and really do not like to work on boring "conveyor lines". On the other hand, a creative atmosphere should not become an end in itself: the IT department has clear goals, the achievement of which determines the success of the IT manager, the credibility of the information service and the business of the enterprise using the information system in its work.
One of the important tasks of the CIO is to try to direct the creative potential of their employees into a “peaceful”, productive channel. In a developed IT service, there is a high need for employees with a wide range of qualities. The IT manager should determine what personal and professional qualities his employees have, and distribute positions in the IT service among them.
Most likely, it will not be possible to offer a single recipe for stimulating the work of creative intellectuals-technocrats. More precisely, it will consist in the opposite: do not cut everyone with the same brush. Depending on personal qualities and preferences, different methods of stimulation should be chosen. Someone will be more spurred on by the possibility of attending training courses, conferences, seminars and speaking at them with their own report. Someone with interest will combine travel and business. Someone loves to solve complex technological problems and then share their experience with colleagues.
Realizing that it is a thankless task to give advice on stimulating the work of IT specialists (as well as on raising children, selecting football coaches and driving a car), we do not seek and do not even try to take on the role of "guru" in this area. We decided to make our contribution in a different way: we tried to establish cooperation with representatives of science - employees of the Department of Sociology and Psychology at MIEM and began the implementation of our joint project to study the characteristics of the motivational sphere of Russian IT staff, as well as to identify the prevailing motivational aspirations of IT specialists. In this issue of the journal we publish the first results of the project. We will be glad if the IT services of the enterprises where our readers work join the study. It's easy to do - just contact our editors. The results of the research will be published in the next issues of the journal.
"Cadres decide everything."
Comrades!
It cannot be denied that recently we have had great successes both in the field of construction and in the field of management. In this regard, we are told too much about the merits of leaders, about the merits of leaders. They are credited with everything, almost all of our achievements. This is, of course, false and wrong. It's not just the leads. But this is not what I would like to talk about today. I would like to say a few words about the cadres, about our cadres in general, and about the cadres of our Red Army in particular.
You know that we have inherited from the old times a technically backward and semi-impoverished, devastated country. Ruined by four years of imperialist war, re-ravaged by three years civil war, a country with a semi-literate population, with low technology, with separate oases of industry, drowning in a sea of the smallest peasant farms - such a country we inherited from the past.
The task was to transfer this country from the rails of the Middle Ages and darkness to the rails of modern industry and mechanized agriculture. The task, as you can see, is a serious and difficult one. The question was: EITHER we will solve this problem in the shortest possible time and strengthen socialism in our country, OR we will not solve it, and then our country - technically weak and culturally obscure - will lose its independence and become an object of the game of the imperialist powers.
Our country was then going through a period of severe famine in the field of technology. There were not enough machines for industry. There were no machines for agriculture. There were no vehicles for transportation. There was no that elementary technical base, without which the industrial transformation of the country is unthinkable. There were only separate prerequisites for creating such a base. It was necessary to create a first-class industry. It was necessary to direct this industry so that it would be capable of technically reorganizing not only industry, but also agriculture, but also our railway transport. And for this it was necessary to make sacrifices and introduce the most severe economy at all, it was necessary to save on food, and on schools, and on manufactory in order to accumulate the necessary funds for creating an industry. There was no other way to eliminate hunger in the field of technology. This is how Lenin taught us, and in this matter we followed in the footsteps of Lenin.
It is clear that in such a large and difficult undertaking one could not expect continuous and quick successes. In such a case, success can be identified only after a few years. Therefore, it was necessary to arm ourselves with strong nerves, Bolshevik endurance and stubborn patience in order to overcome the first setbacks and steadily move forward towards the great goal, not allowing wavering and uncertainty in our ranks.
You know that we handled this case in exactly this way. But not all of our comrades had the nerve, patience and endurance. Among our comrades there were people who, after the first difficulties, began to call for a retreat. They say that "he who remembers the old, that eye is out." This is, of course, true. But a person has a memory, and one involuntarily recalls the past when summing up the results of our work. So, we had comrades who were afraid of difficulties and began to call the party to retreat. They said: “What is your industrialization and collectivization, machines, ferrous metallurgy, tractors, combines, automobiles to us? It would be better if they gave us more manufactory, we would better buy more raw materials for the production of consumer goods and give the population more of all those little things that make people's lives beautiful. our backwardness, and even a first-class industry, is a dangerous dream."
Of course, we could use the 3 billion rubles of hard currency that we obtained through the most severe economy and spent on creating our industry - we could use them to import raw materials and increase the production of consumer goods. This is also a kind of "plan". But with such a "plan" we would have neither metallurgy, nor mechanical engineering, nor tractors and automobiles, nor aviation and tanks. We would be unarmed before external enemies. We would undermine the foundations of socialism in our country. We would find ourselves in captivity of the bourgeoisie, internal and external.
Obviously, it was necessary to choose between two plans: between the plan of retreat, which led and could not but lead to the defeat of socialism, and the plan of attack, which led and, as you know, has already led to the victory of socialism in our country.
We chose a plan of attack and went forward along the Leninist path, wiping out these comrades as people who, at some point, saw under their noses, but turned a blind eye to the immediate future of our country, to the future of socialism in our country.
But these comrades did not always limit themselves to criticism and passive resistance. They threatened us with raising an uprising in the party against the Central Committee. Moreover, they threatened some of us with bullets. Apparently, they hoped to intimidate us and force us to deviate from the Leninist path. These people have obviously forgotten that we Bolsheviks are people of a special breed. They forgot that the Bolsheviks could not be intimidated by difficulties or threats. They forgot what the great Lenin, our leader, our teacher, our father, who did not know and did not recognize fear in the struggle, inflicted. They forgot that the more the enemies rage and the more the opponents within the Party fall into hysterics, the more the Bolsheviks heat up for a new struggle and the more rapidly they move forward.
It is clear that we did not even think of turning off the Leninist path. Moreover, having strengthened on this path, we moved forward even more rapidly, sweeping away any and all obstacles from the road. True, we had to crush the side of some of these comrades along the way. But there's nothing you can do about it. I must confess that I also had a hand in this case.
Yes, comrades, we have set out confidently and swiftly along the path of industrialization and collectivization of our country. And now this path can be considered already passed.
Now everyone recognizes that we have achieved tremendous success along this path. Now everyone recognizes that we already have a powerful and first-class industry, a powerful and mechanized agriculture, a developed and uphill transport, an organized and well-equipped Red Army.
This means that we have largely outlived the period of famine in the field of technology.
But having outlived the period of famine in the field of technology, we have entered a new period, a period, I would say, of a famine in the field of people, in the field of personnel, in the field of workers who are able to saddle technology and move it forward. The fact is that we have factories, factories, collective farms, state farms, an army, we have equipment for all this business, but there are not enough people with sufficient experience necessary to squeeze the maximum out of equipment that can be squeezed out of it. We used to say that "technique is everything". This slogan helped us in the sense that we eliminated the hunger in the field of technology and created the broadest technical base in all branches of activity for arming our people with first-class equipment. This is very good. But this is far and far from enough.
In order to set technology in motion and use it to its fullest, we need people who have mastered technology, we need cadres capable of mastering and using this technology in accordance with all the rules of art.
Technology without people who have mastered technology is dead. Technology, led by people who have mastered technology, can and must produce miracles. If our first-class plants and factories, our collective farms and state farms, our Red Army had a sufficient number of personnel capable of saddling this technique, our country would have three and four times more effect than it now has.
That is why the emphasis must now be placed on people, on cadres, workers who have mastered technology.
That is why the old slogan "technology decides everything", which is a reflection of the past period when we had a famine in the field of technology, must now be replaced by a new slogan, the slogan that "cadres decide everything".
This is the main thing now.
Can it be said that our people understood and fully realized the great significance of this new slogan? I wouldn't say that.
Otherwise, we would not have that ugly attitude towards people, to cadres, to workers, which we often observe in our practice.
The slogan "cadres decide everything" requires our leaders to show the most caring attitude towards our employees, "small" and "large", in whatever field they work, nurture them carefully, help them when they need support, encourage them, when they show the first successes, push them forward, etc.
Meanwhile, in fact, in a number of cases we have evidence of a soulless, bureaucratic and downright ugly attitude towards workers.
This, in fact, explains why instead of studying people and only after studying them put them on posts, people are often thrown around like pawns. We have learned to appreciate machines and report on how much equipment we have in factories and factories. But I do not know of a single case where they would report with the same eagerness about how many people we raised over such and such a period and how we helped people grow and become tempered in their work. How is this explained? This is explained by the fact that we have not yet learned to appreciate people, to appreciate workers, to appreciate cadres.
I recall an incident in Siberia, where I was at one time in exile. It was in the spring, during the flood. About thirty people went to the river to catch wood, carried away by the raging huge river. By evening they returned to the village, but without a comrade. When asked where the thirtieth was, they indifferently replied that the thirtieth "stayed there." To my question: "How so, remained?" - they answered with the same indifference: "What else is there to ask, drowned, therefore." And then one of them began to hurry somewhere, declaring that "we should go and water the mare."
To my reproach that they pity cattle more than people, one of them replied, with the general approval of the others: "Why should we pity them, people? We can always make people, but a mare ... try to make a mare." Here is a touch, perhaps insignificant, but very characteristic. It seems to me that the indifferent attitude of some of our leaders towards people, towards cadres, and the inability to appreciate people is a relic of that strange attitude of people towards people, which was expressed in the episode in distant Siberia that has just been told.
So, comrades, if we want to successfully overcome the hunger in the field of people and ensure that our country has a sufficient number of personnel capable of moving technology forward and putting it into operation, we must first of all learn to value people, value cadres, value every worker who is able to bring benefit to our common cause. Finally, we must understand that of all the valuable capitals available in the world, the most valuable and decisive capital is people, cadres.
It must be understood that under our present conditions "cadres decide everything."
If we have good and numerous cadres in industry, agriculture, transport, the army, our country will be invincible.
We will not have such shots - we will limp on both legs.
Concluding my speech, let me propose a toast to the health and prosperity of our academic graduates in the Red Army! I wish them success in organizing and leading the defense of our country!
Comrades! You graduated from high school and received your first hardening there. But school is only a preparatory stage. The real tempering of cadres is obtained by earnest work, outside of school, in the struggle against difficulties, in overcoming difficulties. Remember, comrades, that only those cadres are good who are not afraid of difficulties, who do not hide from difficulties, but, on the contrary, go towards difficulties in order to overcome and eliminate them.
Only in the struggle against difficulties are real shots forged. And if our army has a sufficient number of real seasoned cadres, it will be invincible.
To your health, comrades!
In May 1935, the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, gave a remarkable speech to the graduates of the military. He dwelled on the successes that Soviet society had achieved in last years, pointing to the merits of the leaders of the country and individual enterprises. And yet, Stalin noted, one should not attribute all the achievements to the wisdom of the leaders or the introduction of technical innovations.
Having overcome the devastation, having passed through the stage of restoration of the national economy, the country entered a new period. Now, as Stalin emphasized, society needs cadres, that is, workers who can cope with technology and move the established production forward. By the mid-1930s, there were a significant number of factories and plants, state farms and collective farms in the Land of Soviets, but there was a severe shortage of people with experience in managing teams and modern technology.
Previously, leaders at all levels relied on the slogan "Technology decides everything." This formulation of the question helped to eliminate the country's backwardness in the field of technology and to create a powerful material basis for socialism. But in the changed conditions, technical equipment alone was no longer enough for a decisive breakthrough. It is for this reason that I.V. Stalin moved a new slogan to the masses, declaring: "Cadres decide everything!"
The role of personnel policy in the modern world
Stalin's words have significance for modern Russia as well. The economic transformations in the country that unfolded two decades ago place increased demands on the personnel of enterprises and organizations. The country is still in dire need of qualified specialists who are able to form the core of industry, science, the army and state structures.
The basis of work with personnel in modern conditions is the creation of a personnel potential management system. Only those managers who carefully select personnel, take measures to educate and train them, not forgetting to stimulate the work of subordinates, can increase the profits of enterprises and achieve a useful social effect. At the same time, the strongest motivation is often not material reward, but moral stimulation.
Modern personnel are people with broad knowledge, valuable skills and work experience. This potential is gradually turning into the main factor of production, pushing aside technological innovations and fashionable methods of organizing production. When planning activities for the long term, a competent leader focuses on working with personnel, creating the so-called long-term human resources potential.
(Stalin's speech to graduates of military academies in 1935)
Comrades!
It cannot be denied that recently we have had great successes both in the field of construction and in the field of management. In this regard, we talk too much about the merits of leaders, about the merits of leaders. They are credited with everything, almost all of our achievements. This is, of course, false and wrong. It's not just the leaders. But this is not what I would like to talk about today. I would like to say a few words about the cadres, about our cadres in general and about the cadres of our Red Army in particular.
You know that we have inherited from the old times a technically backward and semi-impoverished, devastated country. Devastated by four years of imperialist war, devastated again by three years of civil war, a country with a semi-literate population, with low technology, with separate oases of industry, drowning in a sea of the smallest peasant farms - such is the country we have inherited from the past.
The task was to transfer this country from the rails of the Middle Ages and darkness to the rails of modern industry and mechanized agriculture. The task, as you can see, is a serious and difficult one. The question was: EITHER we will solve this problem in the shortest possible time and strengthen socialism in our country, OR we will not solve it, and then our country - technically weak and culturally obscure - will lose its independence and turn into an object of the game of the imperialist powers.
Our country was then going through a period of severe famine in the field of technology. There were not enough machines for the industry. There were no machines for agriculture. There were no cars for transport. There was no that elementary technical base, without which the industrial transformation of the country is unthinkable. There were only separate prerequisites for creating such a base. It was necessary to create a first-class industry. It was necessary to direct this industry so that it would be able to reorganize technically not only industry, but also agriculture, but also our railway transport. And for this it was necessary to make sacrifices and introduce the most severe economy in everything, it was necessary to save on food, and on schools, and on manufacture, in order to accumulate the necessary funds for creating an industry. There was no other way to overcome the hunger in the field of technology. This is how Lenin taught us, and in this matter we followed in Lenin's footsteps.
It is clear that in such a big and difficult undertaking one could not expect continuous and quick successes. In such a case, success can be identified only after a few years. Therefore, it was necessary to arm ourselves with strong nerves, Bolshevik restraint and stubborn patience in order to overcome the first setbacks and steadily move forward towards the great goal, not allowing wavering and uncertainty in our ranks.
You know that we handled this case in exactly this way. But not all of our comrades had the nerve, patience and endurance. Among our comrades there were people who, after the first difficulties, began to call for a retreat. They say that "he who remembers the old is out of his sight." This is, of course, true. But a person has a memory, and one involuntarily recalls the past when summing up the results of our work. So, we had comrades who were afraid of difficulties and began to call the party to retreat. They said: “What do we need your industrialization and collectivization, machines, ferrous metallurgy, tractors, combines, automobiles? It would be better if we would give more manufactory, we would better buy more raw materials for the production of consumer goods and give the population more of all those little things that make people's life more beautiful. The creation of an industry in our backwardness, and even a first-class industry, is a dangerous dream.
Of course, we could use the 3 billion rubles of foreign currency that we obtained through the most severe economy and spent on creating our industry - we could use them to import raw materials and increase the production of consumer goods. This is also a kind of "plan". But with such a "plan" we would have neither metallurgy, nor mechanical engineering, nor tractors and automobiles, nor aviation and tanks. We would be unarmed before external enemies. We would undermine the foundations of socialism in our country. We would find ourselves in captivity of the bourgeoisie, internal and external.
Obviously, it was necessary to choose between two plans: between the plan of retreat, which led and could not but lead to the defeat of socialism, and the plan of attack, which led and, as you know, has already led to the victory of socialism in our country.
We chose a plan of attack and went forward along the Leninist path, wiping back these comrades as people who saw something under their noses, but turned a blind eye to the immediate future of our country, to the future of socialism in our country.
But these comrades did not always limit themselves to criticism and passive resistance. They threatened us with raising an uprising in the party against the Central Committee. Moreover, they threatened some of us with bullets. Apparently, they hoped to intimidate us and force us to deviate from the Leninist path. These people have obviously forgotten that we Bolsheviks are people of a special breed. They forgot that the Bolsheviks could not be intimidated by difficulties or threats. They forgot that we were forged by the great Lenin, our leader, our teacher, our father, who did not know and did not recognize fear in the struggle. They forgot that the more the enemies rage and the more the opponents within the Party fall into hysterics, the more the Bolsheviks heat up for a new struggle and the more rapidly they move forward.
It is clear that we did not even think of turning off the Leninist path. Moreover, having strengthened on this path, we moved forward even more rapidly, sweeping away any and all obstacles from the road. True, we had to crush the sides of some of these comrades along the way. But there's nothing you can do about it. I must confess that I also had a hand in this matter.
Yes, comrades, we have set out confidently and swiftly along the path of industrialization and collectivization of our country. And now this path can be considered already passed.
Now everyone recognizes that we have achieved tremendous success along this path. Everyone now admits that we already have a powerful and first-class industry, a powerful and mechanized agriculture, an expanding and uphill transport, an organized and well-equipped Red Army.
This means that we have largely outlived the period of famine in the field of technology.
But having outlived the period of famine in the field of technology, we have entered a new period, a period, I would say, of a famine in the field of people, in the field of personnel, in the field of workers who are able to ride technology and move it forward. The fact is that we have factories, plants, collective farms, state farms, an army, we have equipment for all this work, but there are not enough people with sufficient experience necessary to squeeze the maximum out of equipment that can be squeezed out of it. . We used to say that "technique is everything". This slogan helped us in the sense that we eliminated the hunger in the field of technology and created the broadest technical base in all branches of activity for arming our people with first-class equipment. This is very good. But this is far and far from enough.
In order to set technology in motion and use it to the fullest, we need people who have mastered technology, we need cadres capable of mastering and using this technology in accordance with all the rules of art.
Technology without people who have mastered technology is dead. Technology, led by people who have mastered technology, can and must produce miracles. If our first-class plants and factories, our collective farms and state farms, our Red Army had a sufficient number of cadres capable of saddling this equipment, our country would have three and four times more effect than it now has.
That is why the emphasis must now be placed on people, on cadres, on workers who have mastered technology.
That is why the old slogan "technology decides everything", which is a reflection of the period already passed when we had a famine in the field of technology, must now be replaced by a new slogan, the slogan that "cadres decide everything".
This is the main thing now.
Can it be said that our people have understood and fully realized the great significance of this new slogan? I wouldn't say that.
Otherwise, we would not have that ugly attitude towards people, towards cadres, towards workers, which we often observe in our practice.
The slogan "cadres decide everything" requires our leaders to show the most caring attitude towards our employees, "small" and "large", in whatever area they work, cultivate them carefully, help them when they need support, encourage them, when they show the first successes, pushed them forward, etc.
Meanwhile, in fact, in a number of cases we have facts of a callously bureaucratic and downright ugly attitude towards workers.
This, in fact, explains why instead of studying people and only after studying putting them on posts, people are often thrown around like pawns. We have learned to appreciate machines and report on how much equipment we have at plants and factories. But I do not know of a single case where they would report with the same willingness how many people we raised over such and such a period and how we helped people grow and become tempered in their work. What explains this? This is explained by the fact that we have not yet learned to value people, to value workers, to value cadres.
I recall an incident in Siberia, where I was at one time in exile. It was in the spring, during the flood. About thirty people went to the river to catch the forest, carried away by the raging huge river. By evening they returned to the village, but without one comrade. When asked where the thirtieth was, they indifferently replied that the thirtieth "stayed there." To my question: "How is it that you stayed?" - they answered with the same indifference: "What else is there to ask, drowned, therefore." And then one of them began to hurry somewhere, declaring that "we should go and water the mare."
To my reproach that they pity cattle more than people, one of them replied with the general approval of the rest: “Why should we pity them, people? We can always make people, but a mare ... try to make a mare ". Here is a touch, perhaps insignificant, but very characteristic. It seems to me that the indifferent attitude of some of our leaders towards people, towards cadres, and the inability to appreciate people, is a relic of that strange attitude of people towards people, which was expressed in the episode in distant Siberia that has just been told.
So, comrades, if we want to successfully overcome the hunger in the field of people and ensure that our country has a sufficient number of cadres capable of moving technology forward and putting it into action, we must first of all learn to value people, value cadres, value everyone. an employee who can contribute to our common cause. Finally, we must understand that of all the valuable capital available in the world, the most valuable and decisive capital is people, cadres.
It must be understood that under our present conditions "cadres decide everything."
If we have good and numerous cadres in industry, agriculture, transport, the army, our country will be invincible.
We will not have such shots - we will limp on both legs.
Concluding my speech, allow me to proclaim a toast to the health and prosperity of our academic graduates in the Red Army! I wish them success in organizing and leading the defense of our country!
HR Strategies
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On May 4, 1935, Stalin uttered his famous phrase at the graduation of the red commanders: Cadres decide everything!
Comrades!
It cannot be denied that recently we have had great successes both in the field of construction and in the field of management. In this regard, we talk too much about the merits of leaders, about the merits of leaders. They are credited with everything, almost all of our achievements. This is, of course, false and wrong. It's not just the leaders. But this is not what I would like to talk about today. I would like to say a few words about the cadres, about our cadres in general and about the cadres of our Red Army in particular.
You know that we have inherited from the old times a technically backward and semi-impoverished, devastated country. Devastated by four years of imperialist war, devastated again by three years of civil war, a country with a semi-literate population, with low technology, with separate oases of industry, drowning in a sea of the smallest peasant farms - such is the country we have inherited from the past.
The task was to transfer this country from the rails of the Middle Ages and darkness to the rails of modern industry and mechanized agriculture. The task, as you can see, is a serious and difficult one. The question was: EITHER we will solve this problem in the shortest possible time and strengthen socialism in our country, OR we will not solve it, and then our country - technically weak and culturally obscure - will lose its independence and turn into an object of the game of the imperialist powers.
Our country was then going through a period of severe famine in the field of technology. There were not enough machines for the industry. There were no machines for agriculture. There were no cars for transport. There was no that elementary technical base, without which the industrial transformation of the country is unthinkable. There were only separate prerequisites for creating such a base. It was necessary to create a first-class industry. It was necessary to direct this industry so that it would be able to reorganize technically not only industry, but also agriculture, but also our railway transport. And for this it was necessary to make sacrifices and introduce the most severe economy in everything, it was necessary to save on food, and on schools, and on manufacture, in order to accumulate the necessary funds for creating an industry. There was no other way to overcome the hunger in the field of technology. This is how Lenin taught us, and in this matter we followed in Lenin's footsteps.
It is clear that in such a big and difficult undertaking one could not expect continuous and quick successes. In such a case, success can be identified only after a few years. Therefore, it was necessary to arm ourselves with strong nerves, Bolshevik restraint and stubborn patience in order to overcome the first setbacks and steadily move forward towards the great goal, not allowing wavering and uncertainty in our ranks.
You know that we handled this case in exactly this way. But not all of our comrades had the nerve, patience and endurance. Among our comrades there were people who, after the first difficulties, began to call for a retreat. They say that "he who remembers the old is out of his sight." This is, of course, true. But a person has a memory, and one involuntarily recalls the past when summing up the results of our work. So, we had comrades who were afraid of difficulties and began to call the party to retreat. They said: “What do we need your industrialization and collectivization, machines, ferrous metallurgy, tractors, combines, automobiles? It would be better if we would give more manufactory, we would better buy more raw materials for the production of consumer goods and give the population more of all those little things that make people's life more beautiful. The creation of an industry in our backwardness, and even a first-class industry, is a dangerous dream.
Of course, we could use the 3 billion rubles of foreign currency that we obtained through the most severe economy and spent on creating our industry - we could use them to import raw materials and increase the production of consumer goods. This is also a kind of "plan". But with such a "plan" we would have neither metallurgy, nor mechanical engineering, nor tractors and automobiles, nor aviation and tanks. We would be unarmed before external enemies. We would undermine the foundations of socialism in our country. We would find ourselves in captivity of the bourgeoisie, internal and external.
Obviously, it was necessary to choose between two plans: between the plan of retreat, which led and could not but lead to the defeat of socialism, and the plan of attack, which led and, as you know, has already led to the victory of socialism in our country.
We chose a plan of attack and went forward along the Leninist path, wiping back these comrades as people who saw something under their noses, but turned a blind eye to the immediate future of our country, to the future of socialism in our country.
But these comrades did not always limit themselves to criticism and passive resistance. They threatened us with raising an uprising in the party against the Central Committee. Moreover, they threatened some of us with bullets. Apparently, they hoped to intimidate us and force us to deviate from the Leninist path. These people have obviously forgotten that we Bolsheviks are people of a special breed. They forgot that the Bolsheviks could not be intimidated by difficulties or threats. They forgot that we were forged by the great Lenin, our leader, our teacher, our father, who did not know and did not recognize fear in the struggle. They forgot that the more the enemies rage and the more the opponents within the Party fall into hysterics, the more the Bolsheviks heat up for a new struggle and the more rapidly they move forward.
It is clear that we did not even think of turning off the Leninist path. Moreover, having strengthened on this path, we moved forward even more rapidly, sweeping away any and all obstacles from the road. True, we had to crush the sides of some of these comrades along the way. But there's nothing you can do about it. I must confess that I also had a hand in this matter.
Yes, comrades, we have set out confidently and swiftly along the path of industrialization and collectivization of our country. And now this path can be considered already passed.
Now everyone recognizes that we have achieved tremendous success along this path. Everyone now admits that we already have a powerful and first-class industry, a powerful and mechanized agriculture, an expanding and uphill transport, an organized and well-equipped Red Army.
This means that we have largely outlived the period of famine in the field of technology.
But having outlived the period of famine in the field of technology, we have entered a new period, a period, I would say, of a famine in the field of people, in the field of personnel, in the field of workers who are able to ride technology and move it forward. The fact is that we have factories, plants, collective farms, state farms, an army, we have equipment for all this work, but there are not enough people with sufficient experience necessary to squeeze the maximum out of equipment that can be squeezed out of it. . We used to say that "technique is everything". This slogan helped us in the sense that we eliminated the hunger in the field of technology and created the broadest technical base in all branches of activity for arming our people with first-class equipment. This is very good. But this is far and far from enough.
In order to set technology in motion and use it to the fullest, we need people who have mastered technology, we need cadres capable of mastering and using this technology in accordance with all the rules of art.
Technology without people who have mastered technology is dead. Technology, led by people who have mastered technology, can and must produce miracles. If our first-class plants and factories, our collective farms and state farms, our Red Army had a sufficient number of cadres capable of saddling this equipment, our country would have three and four times more effect than it now has.
That is why the emphasis must now be placed on people, on cadres, on workers who have mastered technology.
That is why the old slogan "technology decides everything", which is a reflection of the past period when we had a famine in the field of technology, must now be replaced by a new slogan, the slogan that "cadres decide everything".
This is the main thing now.
Can it be said that our people have understood and fully realized the great significance of this new slogan? I wouldn't say that.
Otherwise, we would not have that ugly attitude towards people, towards cadres, towards workers, which we often observe in our practice.
The slogan "cadres decide everything" requires our leaders to show the most caring attitude towards our employees, "small" and "large", in whatever area they work, cultivate them carefully, help them when they need support, encourage them, when they show the first successes, pushed them forward, etc.
Meanwhile, in fact, in a number of cases we have facts of a callously bureaucratic and downright ugly attitude towards workers.
This, in fact, explains why instead of studying people and only after studying putting them on posts, people are often thrown around like pawns. We have learned to appreciate machines and report on how much equipment we have at plants and factories. But I do not know of a single case where they would report with the same willingness how many people we raised over such and such a period and how we helped people grow and become tempered in their work. What explains this? This is explained by the fact that we have not yet learned to value people, to value workers, to value cadres.
I recall an incident in Siberia, where I was at one time in exile. It was in the spring, during the flood. About thirty people went to the river to catch the forest, carried away by the raging huge river. By evening they returned to the village, but without one comrade. When asked where the thirtieth was, they indifferently replied that the thirtieth "stayed there." To my question: "How is it that you stayed?" - they answered with the same indifference: "What else is there to ask, drowned, therefore." And then one of them began to hurry somewhere, declaring that "we should go and water the mare."
To my reproach that they pity cattle more than people, one of them replied with the general approval of the rest: “Why should we pity them, people? We can always make people, but a mare ... try to make a mare ". Here is a touch, perhaps insignificant, but very characteristic. It seems to me that the indifferent attitude of some of our leaders towards people, towards cadres, and the inability to appreciate people, is a relic of that strange attitude of people towards people, which was expressed in the episode in distant Siberia that has just been told.
So, comrades, if we want to successfully overcome the hunger in the field of people and ensure that our country has a sufficient number of cadres capable of moving technology forward and putting it into action, we must first of all learn to value people, value cadres, value everyone. an employee who can contribute to our common cause. Finally, we must understand that of all the valuable capital available in the world, the most valuable and decisive capital is people, cadres.
H One must understand that under our present conditions "cadres decide everything."
If we have good and numerous cadres in industry, agriculture, transport, the army, our country will be invincible.
We will not have such shots - we will limp on both legs.
Concluding my speech, allow me to proclaim a toast to the health and prosperity of our academic graduates in the Red Army! I wish them success in organizing and leading the defense of our country!
Comrades! You graduated from high school and received your first hardening there. But school is only a preparatory stage. The real tempering of cadres is obtained in live work, outside of school, in the struggle with difficulties, in overcoming difficulties. Remember, comrades, that only those cadres are good who are not afraid of difficulties, who do not hide from difficulties, but, on the contrary, go towards difficulties in order to overcome and eliminate them.
Only in the struggle against difficulties are real shots forged. And if our army has enough real hardened personnel, it will be invincible.
To your health, comrades!