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Incredible how they go about time. It's like if something that you can touch. Much has been done and still there are problems. A Soviet economist said recently, "Among all the developed countries in the world, we have the worst and most backward structure of production. We have as many machine tools as the United States. Mainder are either not utilized or are in the repair shop. In the city port is sorely needed because individual transport is scarcer in Russia than in any industrial nation on earth. Western Europe has some 90 cars for every 1,000 people. The USSR has three. Today, a private Russian citizen can buy a car like this one. It will cost him cash in advance, 6 years wages if he is the average non-farm worker, and even then there's a waiting list of a year. This kind of demand for consumer goods by the average citizen is a major pressure on communist leaders to re-evaluate their industrial system. The challenge in centers of learning are good and getting better and high performance. Objectively, however, communism has left many of its promises unfulfilled. Its basic premise that economics is the key to all of man's hopes and aspirations has not in 50 years produced a prosperous economic structure of its own. Just the same, the deep determination is there to make it work and to make it the only system on Earth. And so it cannot safely be ignored because it is a concept that for half a century has animated millions of people and still continues to do so. This documentary film about the world we live in has been brought to you by the company whose life and health insurance services link together 48 million people from coast to coast. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. [Music]