Sparta Knit-Goods Factory / For Our Homeland -- Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #8

From the Soviet Press, 1951

Image: The women Stakhanovites of the Sparta Knit-Goods Factory in Vilnius, the capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, have achieved a substantial improvement in quality of output and a reduction in production cost. A particularly good showing has been made by the shift of forewoman Sophia Silickaite, who was a delegate to the Second U.S.S.R. Conference for Peace. Her shift has cut the cost of production by 20 per cent. Here Sophia Silickaite (second from right) is conducting a talk about the decisions of the Berlin Session of the W.l.D.F. Council

For Our Homeland:

 "How can we, cotton-growers, contribute to the cause of peace?" I asked the men and women collective farmers who came to hear me speak after my return from the Second U.S.S.R. Peace Conference to which I was a delegate.

They unanimously expressed their readiness to work selflessly, in true Stakhanovite fashion, striving day in and day out for ever greater accomplishment.

Standing on Peace Watch, we cultivate and harvest cotton for our Homeland and peace. And here are the results: last year my brigade picked an average of 7.8 tons of choice cotton per hectare. The team headed by Kurbankul Annayeva did even better—it harvested 8.5 tons per hectare. These figures are considerably above the quota.

The country highly appreciates the valorous labour of the cotton-growers. Scores of members of our kolkhoz have been decorated by the Government with Orders or medals, and seventeen have merited the title of Hero of Socialist Labour. Not long ago, the collective farmers elected me their deputy to the Tashauz Regional Soviet of Working People’s Deputies. The voters gave me this instruction:

"You, Patma, are a representative of the people. Serve well the cause of peace, work for the good of our beloved Homeland.”

I regard that mandate as a sacred command. -- Patma Tagibayeva, Hero of Socialist Labour, Thalmann Kolkhoz, Lenin District, Tashauz Region, Turkmen SSR