Word: bolshevist
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...Hitler with intense political intelligence, but to a big majority of the world's artists he remains a fool as well as a nuisance. Hitherto, Hitler has contented himself mainly with declaring what bad art is, has attacked all more or less experimental modern art as "Jewish" and "Bolshevist." Last year he opened a hall of "degenerate" art in Munich which proved a great success (TIME, Aug. 2, 1937). At Nürnberg last month, Realmleader Hitler, having awarded Nazi Culture Prizes No. 1 and No. 2 to Warplane Designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, surpassed himself as an esthetician with...
...thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
...this purpose sought as many interviews with the Dictator as possible. After so confessing, Communist Rozengolts wound up: "Millions of Soviet children, including my own, sing that There Is No Other Land In This World Where One Breathes With Such Freedom! ... I say farewell. . . . Long live the Bolshevist Party under the leadership of Stalin! . . . Long live Communism...
...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...
...sabotage, the leaders developed a series of trials and demotions of dozens of collective farm chairmen, brigade chiefs and chairmen of village Soviets. . . . But it is clear to every one that the violent administrative rage that has swept leaders of the region has nothing to do with the Bolshevist struggle against the true enemies and wreckers. Better Bolshevist organization and more businesslike care of combines and combine operators, of thousands of shock workers and of collective farm labor and less panic and terrible sentences, Comrades of Saratov...