Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late M. Semashko, Soviet Commissar of Health, has been troubled by the thought that Lenin is dead, Trotzky is greying and the Soviets are not producing new brain power at an overwhelming rate. Seeking a remedy for this state of affairs he was last week reported to have visited Dr. Serge Voronoff, French gland specialist, and to have "assisted at a successful rejuvenation operation performed upon Klara Zetkin," 68, famed "Grandmother of German Communism" and member of the German Reichstag...
Triumphant and filled with a new hope, the enterprising Commissar declared: "If the success of these operations continues, the world revolution will take on a new lease of life. . . .Communism must do everything possible to preserve for the cause experienced fighters who may be on the point of dying...
This much is certain. Instruction, such as it may be, is now made easy of attainment by the new ruling class and difficult of access for the old one. Commissar Lunacharsky himself has admitted: "There are no rules against anyone being admitted [to the schools] but when the applicants are genuine proletarians the examiners are a little easier with their questions...
...Finance Commissar Sokolnikov, before a financial conference at Moscow, said in effect that, although Bolshevik Russia had annulled all debts, she was now willing to negotiate terms of repayment compatible with her financial strength, provided that they (the terms) "give us certain advantages...
...Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, smiled at Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Foreign Commissar. He then pulled his fountain pen from his pocket with a sharp, metallic click, unscrewed the top, shook it gently, scribbled something that passed for his signature. Tchitcherin countersigned. The Bolshevik Government had signed a rich manganese concession for 20 years to W. A. Harriman & Co. of Manhattan...