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...stump Russia's late, great Nikolai Lenin used the words "Socialism" and "Communism" as interchangeable synonyms. Josef Stalin has stated that what the Russian Communist Party is doing today is "Building Socialism...
Many a king, such as Belgium's beloved Albert, has recently cut his own royal wages; but last week Josef Stalin, Dictator of one-sixth of the world, moved quietly to triple the pay of himself and Russia's 2,500,000 other Communists?the Soviet elite...
Disgruntled Russians complain to the Workers' & Peasants' Inspection, a nationwide organization through which Josef Stalin keeps his finger on Russia's 148,000,000 pulses. Last week the Complaint Bureau of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection announced that April 9-14 will be "Complaint Week," urged all citizens to complain, particularly of any negligence on the part of local officials of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection itself. During Complaint Week, declared the announcement, a "mass complaint meeting" will be held at every factory and on every collective farm in Russia...
...Josef Stalin's old teacher, Orthodox Father Bogoyavlenski, regaled pious Stuttgart Germans with anecdotes of the days when Russia's future Dictator was a schoolboy at Tiflis' Theological Seminary. Everyone knows that Stalin's mother tried to make him a priest (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930), and every Russian knows that for 300 years at least Russian scoffers have baited Russian believers with the following rigmarole: "I believe that Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread, but I do not believe they weren't hungry afterward. I believe that water can be turned...
Though the Red Army is spoiling to fight Japan (TIME, March 7), Josef Stalin continued stubbornly peaceful, restrained the Russian Press, pushed on with the Five-Year Plan. But among White Russians, exiles from the Soviet Union, hope quickened last week...