Word: proletariats
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...captain's decision failed to baffle the State Prosecutor. "I denounce you, Comrade Miguschenko," he cried. "You should have led a mutiny against the order to cut the tow line! You should have taken charge of the men, locked up the captain as an enemy of the proletariat, and led the crew to the rescue of the tanker...
...smaller, pioneer cities (TIME, May 8, 1933). To make this mass passport process even harsher, Russians who had to surrender their old passports could not get new ones unless they rehearsed their entire life histories and proved that they were not enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone who turned out to be such an "enemy" was punished in drastic Soviet fashion...
...black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week, more than 8,000,000 persons had passed. Last year Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev, permanent caretakers of the corpse, were awarded the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet honor...
Fighting point between the two muralists was the charge that neither was sufficiently Communist. A hearty laugh was this to thoroughgoing Reds, who have disowned Rivera and Siquieros time & again. Possibly the proletariat never had a more talented group of advocates than the members of the old Mexican syndicate. Besides Rivera and Siquieros it included Jose Clemente Orozco, Xavier Guerrero, Carlos Merida, Jean Chariot. All were real artists, sturdy individualists. All have made international reputations and a certain amount of money. With growing fame all have developed an unintelligent but thoroughly natural jealousy of each other. Because Muralist Siquieros...
...apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder...