Subject: Re: Reality must be banished
It worked for the commies...for a while...

MOSCOW, Jan. 27, 1962 - Soviet citizens read yesterday a Government statement reporting that the national economy was booming and expanding. The announcement was contained in statistics on industrial and agricultural production that covered about one-third of the newspapers. Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions in minds of some Soviet citizens and foreign observers about the relationship of statistics to reality.