One of the fundamental tasks confronting our country in the period of the full-scale building of communism is that of more fully meeting the growing material and spiritual requirements of the Soviet people. Soviet trade, which must satisfy the people's requirements for mass consumption goods, will play an important role in bringing this about. The rapid increase in industrial and agricultural production has made it possible in recent years to meet the needs of the population more fully. In 1959 alone, sales of the principal consumer goods through the state and cooperative trading network increased as follows: meat and meat products - 2W0, milk and dairy products - 18%, sugar - 10%.