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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Peaching Pioneers | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Children's Relatives | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Children's Relatives | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...September Pavel and little Fedor went into the woods. A group of villagers, boys and men with long knives hanging from their belts, found them there. While the terrified children clung to each other, somebody made the first stab. The savage villagers cut their bodies to pieces, buried them under the pines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Father & Sons | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Last week the Soviet State began the job of avenging Martyrs Pavel & Fedor. Their murderers were rounded up, herded into court and a typical Soviet "propaganda trial" began. Presumably several of the knife-handy villagers will be sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Orators all over Russia will point the moral, urge good children to continue to peach and if necessary die for Communism, sure that they will be avenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Father & Sons | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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