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...shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...
Last week Stalin spoke his mind to young Andrey A. Andreyev who made such a name as Russia's ablest industrial "troubleshooter" two years ago that the Dictator promoted him to be Commissar for Land Transport. Result was another decree, aimed chiefly at Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited...
...thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim's airdrome outside Moscow one morning last week. By noon the ground station was proudly issuing copies of radio messages from the balloon, that...
...last week Comrade Shatov was supposed to be Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...
...stranger to Soviet propaganda trials was the prosecutor. Stocky Andrey Y. Vyshinsky, decorated like a prize Percheron with the ribboned rosette of the Order of the Red Flag, served as presiding judge at another Soviet circus, the famed Shakhta Trial of five years ago (TIME, July 2, 1928 et seq.). But the presiding judge last week was not at all what foreign correspondents expected. Judge Vassily Ulrich, a chubby, baldish, moon-faced little fellow, was amiable, quite as eager to exchange quips with witnesses as any periwigged British magistrate...