Word: fedor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographic evidence from Moscow and Rome to settle the most significant controversy in which Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff has become involved in recent years arrived in the U. S. last week. The case has concerned M. Fedor Butenko, one of the New Bolsheviks who are being spectacularly advanced in the Soviet Union by Dictator Stalin to replace the liquidated Old Bolsheviks. Since Stalin's purge has been mowing down Soviet diplomats right & left, the Moscow diplomatic school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house...
...days later, New Bolshevik Fedor Butenko quietly turned up in Rome. He explained that he had ducked out of Rumania because he had felt the hot breath of the Soviet Secret Political Police on his neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that...
...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...
Rather more than an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth was exacted last week by the Soviet Court which tried the murderers of Pavel, 13, and Fedor, 9, Russia's famed "good children" who peached on their father Trophim Morosov and had him banished for the crime of "obstructing collectivization" (TIME...
...published and broadcast throughout Russia. Too many villagers had stabbed and hacked the two "good children" for all the assassins to be shot. One woman and three men were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Three of the condemned were close kin of Pavel & Fedor...