Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Bolshevik guards armed to the teeth have been turning back anyone trying to get into Russia from Rumania. To emphasize the wrath of the two nations at each other, the last connection between them, a railway bridge, was dynamited. In Soviet geographies Red moppets learn that the Rumanian province of Bessarabia ought to be, must be Russian. Punished is that Soviet child who does not draw Bessarabia as part of Russia, color it the same as the rest of the Soviet Union...
Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back...
Doubtfully the Bolshevik guards fingered it. Grudgingly they wired Moscow, and in Russia 36 hours is quick time in which to get a telegraphic response. While the Rumanian personage fumed, his Communist guards made him thoroughly uncomfortable by giving him some of their own black bread and cabbage soup. Then like a bolt from the blue came Moscow's answer, an airplane luxuriously equipped. Into it popped Minister Cuintu and zoomed off to his post over rough country innocent of railways...
...that Old Bolshevik Mikhail Koltsov, member of Izvestia's Editorial Board, such talk was astounding news. "Not so long ago," he editorialized, "the Communist Party and all Communist organizations persecuted those among Soviet youths who wore clean shirts and neckties, used perfume or face powder, and attended musical shows. . . . Times have changed...
Disappointment was general that the Government apparently could not make up its mind to state just why a fellow-Bolshevik had slain Stalin's friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES...