third 5 year plan

• successes

  • 1/3 of government investment went towards armed forces
  • production rose
  • 8 million in army, 12,000 tanks and 52,000 guns
  • coal production rose by 38 million tonnes
• failures

  • still confused and not well planned
  • all resources being spent on war meant little else was paid attention to
  • purges of factory managers