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Abruptly last week the unlikely happened, as it often does in Moscow. Dictator Josef Stalin, whose State is now harder pressed than ever for valuta, decided to stop hoarding Russians, offered in effect to sell them out of Russia for cash (valuta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Visas at a Price | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

This year Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are the only parts of the Soviet Union to fulfill 100% the grain shipping quotas set by the Soviet State. Last week virtuous Moscovites and Tartars were rewarded by Dictator Josef Stalin. He decreed as a signal boon that all collective and even individual peasant farms in Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are authorized to sell any surplus grain which they may have left for what it will bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Moscovites & Tartars | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Stauning Government was indiscriminate to the extent of detailing 600 policemen to guard the Great Revolutionist. In Moscow the Soviet Government knows all about "the theory of permanent revolution" and highly disapproves of it. Dictator Josef Stalin and his ruling class hate & fear Leon Trotsky even more than do kings & queens. Last week pro-Stalin Communists daubed Copenhagen streets with this strange device: Down with Premier Stauning and Traitor Trotsky! Long Live Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Aage v. Trotsky | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...same storms that blew little auks into New York killed thousands elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast. The Eskimos of Greenland. Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land may well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Grounded Lollipops | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Died. Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva Stalin, 30, second wife of Josef Stalin, 53; in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

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