Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voroshilov, Soviet Defense Commissar, replied with a speech promising that "when there shall be no further need for uniforms, the Red Army will put on civilian clothes!" After dinner the Red Army leaders were entertained by an Embassy showing of the musicomedy cinema Rose Marie. Three nights previously other Bolshevik bigwigs had been regaled with Naughty Marietta. "Each soldier in the Soviet Army," Red guests told Host Davies, whose wife's fortune came from food, "now receives 5,000 calories per day, whereas in the Tsarist Army the ration was but 3,300 calories...
Sensation of the Moscow week, apart from the unprecedented behavior of Bolshevik bigwigs who never before have attended Embassy functions, was an abnormally candid speech "made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov...
...museums which until a few weeks ago were one of the major tourist sights of the Soviet Union; and that the Komsomols or Young Communist Leagues have now abandoned their anti-religious propaganda among Russian youths. All this must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since J. Stalin, although he was a theological student at the Orthodox Seminary in Tiflis during his youth, has not yet actually come out for religion, having merely buried his wife in consecrated grounds, Izvestia last week took the chance 'of printing an editorial which screamed warning that Russian...
...ends with a close-up of Lenin in 1921. Between the two, it assembles an extraordinarily complete record of major happenings, catches the spirit of ten incredible years. Best shots: palace guards helping the 10-year-old Tsarevitch mount his horse; Petrograd crowds tossing bouquets at Kerensky; an unidentified Bolshevik soldier smiling at his White firing squad...
...Europe," the tallest sections 13 stories high. In efforts to get droning Red Bureaucrats inside to bestir themselves, the Kharkov managing staffs of a section of the latest Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists seemed on good behavior, but Ambassador Davies hustled on out to the Kharkov Tractor Plant, thoroughly inspected the entire works, which now send a tractor off the assembly line every five minutes. Some unfortunate jinx caused...