Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since every important Soviet step is supposed to be taken in a direction pointed out by Lenin, cautious Stalin is rebuking the Communists and trade unionists of Nizhnii Novgorod, reminded them that one of Lenin's slogans was: "Absolute obedience to the will of one man?namely the Soviet manager?during working hours!" Motor car production, the Dictator ordered, must be up to schedule within six months...
...Alan Gray, former organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and a composer of note, discovered with horror last week that he had rented the local Y. M. C. A. hall to exhibitors of Soviet posters who were displaying Lenin's famed slogan "Religion is opium for the people...
...time they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure of a baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great...
Second Piatiletka. Since last summer the Caspian (State Planning Commission) has been studying, planning, replanning a program for the years 1933-37. Last week on the eighth anniversary of the death of Bolshevism's sainted Lenin, its work was done. Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime chairman of the Supreme Eco-omic Council, who looks like an Italian tenor. Sang...
...Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics. Last week this indomitable lady suddenly lashed out at both her cousins, the Nationalists and the Canton Government of the South. Said...