东欧人民民主国家在全力发展重工业、建设社会主义基础的同时,也同样注意发展轻工业,增多消费品的供应,从而保证劳动人民生活水准的不断提高。东欧人民民主国家在第二次世界大战以前,也是有着一些轻工业的,但是这些工业根本不是为本国人民服务。它们的产品是输往外国去的,它们所以存在并且畸形发展,全是因为东欧各国资产阶级残酷地剥削着东欧特别廉价的劳动力,因之使得这些工业的产品成本低廉,容易在世界市场上和外国产品竞争,使资产阶级的荷包里每年滚进大量利润。如保加利亚在第一次和第二次世界大战中间的年代中,乳酪工厂从八个发展到五百十四个,这些工厂的生产力不仅超过保加利亚的需要,而且越过全巴尔干半岛各国的需要。捷克斯洛伐克的皮革工业和纺织工业情况也是如此。但是保加利亚人民还是没有乳酪吃,捷克斯洛伐克人还是衣衫褴褛。上述情形清楚地说明了战前东欧各国轻工业的 While fully developing heavy industry and building a socialist foundation, the people’s democracies in Eastern Europe are also paying equal attention to developing light industry and increasing the supply of consumer goods so as to ensure a continuous improvement in the living standards of working people. Before the Second World War, the people’s democracies in Eastern Europe also had some light industries, but these industries did not serve their own people at all. Their products are exported to foreign countries, and their existence and deformity are all due to the brutal exploitation of the particularly cheap labor force in Eastern Europe by the bourgeois countries in Eastern Europe, which makes their products cheaper and easier to find in world markets Competition for foreign products has caused bourgeois jackets to make large profits each year. Bulgaria, for example, grew from eight to five hundred and fourteen cheese factories in the midst of the First and Second World War. The productivity of these factories exceeded the needs of Bulgaria and beyond the needs of all Balkan countries. The same is true for the leather and textile industries in Czechoslovakia. But the Bulgarians still eat without cheese, and Czechoslovakians are still ragged. The above situation clearly illustrates the pre-war Eastern European light industry