Word: komsomol
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Bylinkin had a job in the Oblast Komsomol Committee (regional youth organization). Recently he got in the wrong office, sat down at a telephone and worked for three days without realizing that he was in the wrong place. When his error was finally discovered, he said it had occurred to him that there were lots of new faces around-but on thinking it over he smugly decided that everyone else in the organization had been fired overnight...
...looked exactly like the businessmen at a U.S. junior chamber of commerce luncheon. They were Communists just as their American counterparts were Republicans, "because it was the party of respectability and its hallmark would be helpful to a young man anxious to get on in the world." The Komsomol, or League of Young Communists, seemed to White "a combination of the Girl Scouts and the Young Republican Club." The Society for the Godless was young Russia's Epworth League...
...thinks there should be an Order of the Heroic Father." A Komsomol girl suggested a new slogan: "More children, fewer careers...
City children were drafted for farm work. Komsomol boys & girls mobilized for tree cutting to replenish the lost coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...
...Soviet police last week jailed numerous Komsomol (Communist Youth Organization) leaders in the Ukraine and White Russia, who were accused of fomenting pogroms, according to Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...