Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers have done most of the shooting. In coal mines, factories, railways and even on the Dictator's favorite collective farms in recent weeks desperate Russian workers have slain Stakhanovites. Pride & Sabotage. Six months ago the most violent of Dictator Stalin's henchmen, big-nosed, hot-eyed Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze. demanded that Russian workmen pitch in and really learn to use the machine tools their Government was buying from the Capitalistic world at drastic sacrifices of food and other Russian goods...
...their pride-by telling them how the Capitalists who had sold tools to Bolsheviks were snickering up their sleeves, sure that clumsy Russians would never get the hang of mechanized technique. Already in Russia the breakdown of a machine was often the signal to shoot the operator "for sabotage." Commissar Ordzhonikidze demanded something more constructive...
Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
...role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General, with himself as Commissar General. Since the Cabinet of Russia is known as the Commissariat or Council of Peoples Commissars, this creation of a Commissariat-General was indeed extraordinary. What it meant Russians and the world were left to guess-probably no more than that the Russian spy clique is little by little openly...
Berlin's Mayor since April 1931 has been hulking Dr. Heinrich Sahm-"Long Heinrich'' to Berliners. A favorite of old President Paul von Hindenburg and highly popular in Berlin, he is no Nazi at heart, has had most of his functions taken over by the Nazi Commissar for Berlin. Dr. Julius .Lippert. Last week, word went round the coffee houses that the Brown Shirts finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from...