Word: komsomols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esther L. Witkowska, a Pole, who was deported to work in the Degtyanka copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
...last week. It soon began to melt and turn to slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...Komsomoltsy of the Yaroslavl locomotive roundhouse proudly reported that they had already reached their production goals for 1948 and were taking on more. Comrade Ilichev, secretary of the Altai committee of the Komsomol, was in dutch because there had been a drop in membership in his area, and the secretary of another group, in Barnaul, Siberia, had just had his knuckles rapped for organizing a bourgeois kissing game of postoffice one evening. On the whole, however, the jubilee tone was one of Soviet satisfaction. Moscow announced that the Komsomol (for youths 15 to 25) now numbered 9,000,000 members...
There were good reasons for joining. In Russia the choicest careers are open only to members of the Communist Party (some 6,300,000), and the Komsomol is the recruiting ground of the party. A Komsomol song tells who can belong...