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...Russian symbol for self-imposed production speedup. Skilled Pneumatic-Drill Operator Alexei Stakhanov boosted coal output fivefold simply through better teamwork...
...Tolstoy's day, the enemy dead-and the victors, after 127,000 Russians had fallen -were British and French. Last week a more dreadful foe, with more dreadful weapons, attacked and died and still attacked the deep defenses around the city. Leo Tolstoy's distant kinsman, Alexei, wrote in Red Star: "Now at Sevastopol there is no air fit to breathe because of the decaying bodies of German and Rumanians." Hitler's Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein drove his men ever closer, over the mounds of their dead, and a U.S. correspondent cabled: "The question...
Molotov's right-hand man in the Foreign Office is 40-year-old Alexei Vassiltchenko, who few years ago was Stalin's clean-up man. In the evenings he plays a card game called "Preference" with his boss and listens to his long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...
...rate, Lenin's proposal could scarcely be carried out against Stalin's strong organization. During this and the subsequent crucial period the chief members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Party's ruling body, were Stalin, Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky-seven little bottles hanging on the wall. In 1928 Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R., in 1936 Zinoviev and Kamenev were tried for treason, found guilty, shot. Tomsky attended the trial, committed suicide. In 1938 Rykov and Bukharin went before the firing squad...
...vague, that it was a spur-of-the-moment deal was impossible. But January 12 of this year may have been the turning point. At a New Year's party in his glittering new Chancellery, Adolf Hitler surprised diplomats by having a long, amiable talk with Russian Ambassador Alexei Fedorovich Mere-kalov. Hitler speaks no Russian, the Ambassador little German, but they understood each other better than anyone realized. Thereafter, the Goebbels Press & Radio ceased their gutter-word attacks on Joseph Stalin...