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...Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward-looking peasantry is Fordson. The peasant speaks of the Fordzonishko (dear little Fordson) gently and lovingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Last of an American | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Last of an American | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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