Word: bolsheviks
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Comrade Litvinoff was hovering last week just beyond the Swiss frontier in the tiny French village of Douvaine, waiting for M. Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
Before Ambassador von Hoesch replied. the Soviet envoy, Comrade Ivan Maisky, was heard from. He denounced "Miss Russia." "She is no true woman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic!" cried excitable Ambassador Maisky. "This so-called 'Miss Russia' is not a Bolshevik woman in any sense but a White Russian...
...every Russian child knows, the Young Pioneers?Bolshevik boy and girl scouts?have had plenty of suffering and struggling in Russia, largely at the hands of oldsters unable to understand the ideals of Young Russia. In December 1932, there was the case of little Pavel and Fedor Morosov. Pavel & Fedor were Young Pioneers and they knew that their father, president of a local Soviet, was secretly in league with village kulaks. As a good Pioneer, Pavel promptly peached on papa but other villagers did not appreciate the children's rectitude. They tracked Pavel & Fedor to the woods, hacked their bodies...
...Several months ago graft charges were preferred in a local court against the "Red Prince," but he brazenly announced, "I am called away from Georgia on an imperative official mission." Before he was caught he had squandered 128,000 rubles on the grandest Bolshevik spree on record...
...trotting horses are of little use as cavalry mounts or for plowing. With a guilty conscience Moscow was having fun. The big event was the Grand All-Union Trotting Handicap and everyone seemed to have fistfuls of greasy rubles to bet on Evening. "He is sure to win," argued Bolshevik tipsters. "His grandsire is one of the best American stallions we have imported...