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...Komsomol (Young Communist) at the age of 17, he rose to be a regimental commander in the Red army, but in the early '30s transferred to the Osoby Otdel (Special Department) of the NKVD. Sent to the Ukraine, he worked with Stalin's Ukrainian troubleshooter, Nikita Khrushchev. Together they supervised the deportation and liquidation of hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. After the conquest and partition of Poland, Serov was assigned to the job of eliminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the newly annexed territories. Infamous secret order No. 001223, outlining procedures to be adopted for executions...
...succeed him, should be taken as a sign that the army might take over the country. Molotov last week went out of his way to underscore a vital statistic: 77% of all men in the Red Army belong either to the Communist Party or to the Komsomol (young Communists...
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...
...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...