Word: bolsheviks
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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...
...land where people's ordinary labors are thus the subject of compulsion, explosions of the full Bolshevik Terror automatically attend times of stress. Last week the chief drumhead court in Moscow was presided over by Judge Vassily Ulrich, famed during the British Engineers' Propaganda Trial (TIME, April 24, 1932). In a tome published last year by Dr. Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated...
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...