Extract A
From a book about Stalin's rule, published in in 1995.
In 1930 work began on a dam on the Ural River to supply the steel factory in
Magnitogorsk with water. There was competition between left and right river
banks: 'Everyone to the dam! Everything for the dam! The dam was built in
a record 74 days, well ahead of schedule. One contemporary writer wrote:
The Magnitogorsk dam was the school at which people began to respect
Communist miracles. But it was not deep enough and the water froze, and
a new dam five times as big was started almost immediately. When it was
completed the first dam was submerged.


QUESTION: what impression does the author give about the first five-year plan? You must use extract A explain your answer.