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...anniversary speeches in Moscow (see above) were far overshadowed, in importance and revealing detail, by an other speech - made last August. The speech was delivered by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson got the text last week, and found in it the best report in years on how it is with Russia...
...Great Want. Kalinin's prime job is to interpret the people's reactions to Soviet policy makers and to sell Soviet policy to the people. Addressing a group of Communist Party organizers who work among collective farmers, he took grave note of rising Russian dissatisfaction, caused in part by German destruction and the cost of war and in part by a discovery made by millions of Red Army men - men-that every country they entered in Europe had a higher living standard than theirs...
...clamor for more of the good things of life was strong; even Party organizers were grousing. Kalinin chided them: "You were grumbling here that there is not enough consumers' goods. Of course, there isn't and there cannot be enough...
...Russia all men are not economically equal. To the grumbling Party organizers, Kalinin gave a hint as to where the first consumers' goods would...
...Army was not in a state of revolt. But Russia's rulers were audibly disturbed. President Mikhail Kalinin himself recently took note of returning Red Army men's complaints that they could find nothing to buy. The veterans, he admitted, to a certain extent were impressed by German "petty culture." Then he gave some serious advice to Party propagandists and agitators who would have to deal, among other things, with veterans no longer happy at home...