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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just about the most promising American Communist who has made good in the Soviet Union is famed Stepan Semenovich Dybets. After doughty apprenticeship in the I. W. W. he was called from a Hoboken dockyard to Russia in the early days of the revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Old Bolshevik & Big-Shots | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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