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...years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on the largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov's assistant...
Many a child-bearing Russian housewife, already beset with a scarcity of salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper...
Conditions grew so chaotic that the editors of the Government newsorgan Izvestia took a hand, invited officials to confer with them, later devoted three columns to shocking revelations and a blunt analysis of what was wrong in the Agriculture Commissariat. Izvestia blamed everything on the lack of a "single coordinating authority which would direct the work in a rational way." Higher officials were wasting their time in endless conferences which brought no results. Sleepy workers were staying on their jobs sometimes 24 hours a day, fearful of showing a "lack of zeal." Said Izvestia: "Real work usually begins after...
...apologized and explained that, the night before, he stayed up until 6 o'clock in the morning-he attended a conference. Before coming to him, we went to see the chief of our department; he was sleepy, too, and for the same reason.' " The crop-rotation scheme, Izvestia revealed, is no nearer realization now than it was in the spring, and Sotsialisticheskoe Zemledelie (Socialist Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land to the collective farms...
Censors permitted to pass the estimate of Izvestia, official Government organ, that the now collectivized peasants have resisted this year to the extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing...