“...Centralization of management of the national economy is the main means in the hands of the victorious proletariat for the speedy development of the country's production forces and ensuring the leading importance of industry in economic life; at the same time it is a prerequisite and condition for the socialist construction of the national economy and the subordination of small enterprises to the public economy. In conditions of economic devastation, with the unusually difficult state of reserves of raw materials, fuel and equipment, increased centralization in this same area becomes even more necessary and is the only measure to prevent the dispersal of the national economy and preserve its main core in the form of the largest factory associations - this economic basis of socialism. ..."