 In August 1927, a panic began among the population, which resulted in the wholesale purchase of food for the future.At the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (December 1927), Mikoyan admitted that the country had experienced the difficulties of "the eve of war without having a war".The main task of the introduced command economy was to build up the economic and military power of the state at the highest possible rates.