“Who needs such a nail?” “This is irrelevant. It is important that we fulfilled the plan immediately.”
HT for translation http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22375/did-a-soviet-nail-factory-produce-useless-nails-to-improve-metrics#new-answer?newreg=1df316b14875459f9cb21fcb049417a9
HT for lead https://mises.org/library/todays-anti-capitalists-ignore-fundamental-problems-socialism
See also http://krokodilmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/01/krokodil-1952-2-p1.html