Word: bolsheviks
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...horsewhip your wife, and I'll throw you out with the slops!" In the capital of a Communist State such Capitalist carryings on are "intolerable," as the Government Press remarked last week. Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great Lenin and for a Bolshevik to criticize his acts or decisions is well-nigh treason. During the lean years after the Revolution it was decreed under the NEP policy of Dictator Lenin that houses in Moscow which had fallen into disrepair might be granted as "private possessions" to any Russians willing to put them in good repair...
...Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...
...Union Congress of Young Communist Women and slipped in her covert protest. "The mother instinct is noble, and we consider it a great force, but we do not want our women to devote their lives to rearing children only!" cried Widow Lenin, herself childless and a typical Old Bolshevik, with scorn for the bourgeois virtues. "We do not want child bearing or any other aspect of married life to separate our women from public work...
Meanwhile the official Press strove last week to slow down Russia's present race for divorces. Thundering against Bolshevik fathers and mothers who were jamming the Zags, the Government news-organ Izvestia cried: "Soviet children must be protected from despicable and foul people...
...Moscow every potent Bolshevik from Joseph Stalin down feted Dr. Benes who is also a favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...