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...Russia is nothing new. And Russians know all about U.S. aid that comes too late. They are especially familiar with this phenomenon in old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, new capital of Russia...
...Joseph Stalin could not let this immediacy dazzle his eyes and stop his mind. He had to chop his way out of a thicket of decisions-about Moscow's de fense, about moving the Government to old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, about defending the Donets Basin, about the Volga, the Urals, the Far East, about Russia's present and Russia's future...
Soviet newsorgans were crammed last week with a new scandal: the crimes committed by small Communist officials in carrying out locally the nationwide purge fathered by Joseph Stalin. Typical was the case of one Pavel P. Postishev, Communist leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...
...Still longer bridges exist, but they are a series of bridges, swung or arched between piers arranged like stepping stones across a river. Longest bridges of this type are the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland, the Samara Bridge over the Volga River...
...late, also, the Russian peasant, ingenious in his discontent, has discovered yet another way of annoying the Government. Of 9,000 peasant houses destroyed by fire in one (Samara) province last year, 3,000 were due to arson. Fire insurance paid out totaled four million rubles ($2,000,000). The peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes...