Word: five-year-planning
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...Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years...
...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
Such championship of mere pleasure for its own sake would have cost any Communist his treasured Party membership last spring. But Josef Stalin, shrewdest of shrewd Dictators, has sensed that millions of Russians are sick of his laborious Five-Year-Plan, deaf to exhortations and are increasingly hungry. Let them laugh then and be cheered...
...lecture, Dr. Dana will emphasize the importance of the Soviet drama in portraying revolutionary experiments such as the Five-Year-Plan, and in building up and maintaining in Russians the spirit to carry out and support the drastic national readjustments which are now in progress. The function of the drama as a maker and moulder of morals will also be treated...