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...were forced to join collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed: "The heavy bread consumption we are now experiencing indicates weakness in our livestock raising. However, pigs take the place of bread very well...
Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...Received from Stalin's genial old Front Man, peasant-President Mikhail Kalinin, the news that "while unemployment has been abolished in the Soviet Union it has become in the Capitalist world an epic comparable to Erich Maria Remarque's story of the World War in All Quiet on the Western Front...
Pleased with this simile, "Papa" Kalinin rambled on, drew deafening cheers with an announcement that when Russia's largest "chemical city" is shortly completed he will rename the place Stalinogorsk-this making the 15th Soviet city to be named after Stalin, not to mention mountain peaks and islands...