Word: bolsheviks
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This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
Last week Hearst anxiety about the faithful Bolshevik translator was communicated to the U. S. State Department which ordered "inquiries" in Moscow, the most that could be done since the man sentenced to be shot was no U. S. citizen. The moment this degree of U. S. interest was evinced. Russia's sensitive Dictatorship ordered a stay of execution and a brisk retrial of Hearstman Mikhailov by the Court of Appeals which altered his sentence from Death to eight years imprisonment...
...speeded up his daily output 200%. Tried before a military tribunal, they were sentenced to death. In the coal mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member of the Communist Party up to the time of his arrest. According to the Soviet Press...
With this tribute of Lindberghian modesty from Stakhanov, Dictator Stalin pronounced one of those great Bolshevik discourses which Workers of the World seldom wade clear through...
Queerest effect of Stakhanovism has been to make Russia's famed Five-Year Plans look slow. The Moscow News is now caricaturing even Russia's previously sacrosanct planners, draws half-smiling, half-snarling workers in the act of striding through and kicking aside the Bolshevik plan bureaucrats...