Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command firmly shushed...
...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
...Moscow "Klim" as Army Commissar knows well enough that the Red Army, second largest (562,000) in the world though it be, is untried, inexperienced and if forced to fight Japan at the end of the Trans-Siberian 5,600 miles from Moscow will be at an appalling disadvantage. But as Commissar for Air he is believed to feel that the Red Air Force (2,000 planes) is Russia's joker, her super-trump card against Japan...
Trotsky, "The First Fighting Jew since Judas Maccabeus" was an idol in Soviet hearts because as Commissar of War he had created the Red Army out of chaos and revolution and had successfully beaten back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally...
Speechmaking is a great part of every Red Army officer's job and "Klim" on the platform compares favorably with General Johnson. Peasant born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin...