Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet justice has not been making much of a world reputation for itself lately. Significantly, the leading Moscow expert on Communist jurisprudence, Eugeni Pashukanis, was denounced by the official press last week as "a wrecker, a traitor and a betrayer of the Fatherland...
...Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony was supposed to indicate the new Soviet trend toward babbling-brook romanticism...
...militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer to keep the parquet floors of his Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso XIII are objects of sympathy, occasionally get a friendly English cheer...
Last June at Moscow's airport delighted Joseph Stalin gave a great bear hug and kiss to Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, the most magnificently bearded Bolshevik in all Russia (see cut). The achievements of the Soviet North Sea Route Administration under Hero Schmidt were then the most daring and courageous to the credit of Soviet science (TIME, June 14). Last week there stood to the credit of Professor Schmidt and his Arctic colleagues this year's fresh crop of achievements by Soviet North Pole scientists (TIME, Feb. 28), but the Dictator was not handing out any more hugs...
...word in Moscow for several months has been "Watch Kosior, he's gaining on Yezhov!" Yezhov, who is the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union as head of the Secret Political Police, won his power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious...