[4V50 Gary]

Suvorov talks about the failure of central planning. The Soviets want to increase food production but realize they can't make people work harder. Lazy people will always be lazy because they know they get paid the same as the hard worker. So, they hit upon the idea of making fertilizer that can be given away for free to the communes. This means no one will have to work harder yet production will increase!

Communes are told to come 'n git it. Trouble is, with that great central planning, no one thought of getting trucks to transport the mess. Score one for central planning. Viktor's commune has only three trucks. One is for milk. Can't contaminate that. One is for water. Can't use either. So, they use their sole truck for fuel to transport it. Each truck is required to transport a ludicrous load that is impossible given the time frame. Another victory for central planning. Viktor notes that trips by trucks that should take hours takes minutes. What? So, when his truck is loaded, he follows the others and like them, dump the fertilizer into the Dneiper River! It kills the fish. Another victory for central planning. Along with other drivers, Viktor is caught and made to haul one load back. But it's too early to use it and the commune has no place to store it. Central planning wins again! So Viktor dumps it into his own garden. Too much in too small a space and it reeks! The soil is ruined and now he can't grow food for himself. Opps. Unwilling to do time for counter-revolutionary activity of improper disposal of the fertilizer and unhappy at the prospect of starving, Viktor runs off and joins the glorious Soviet Army where he can at least get fed.

His book is filled with lessons about communism and why it fails.