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...since the so-called "liquidation of the kulaks" and "fulfillment of the First Five-Year Plan." The great new addition to vocabularies: Stakhanovism. To liquidate the kulaks was a bloody, brutal process in which Russia's more prosperous small farmers were shot by the thousands and deported to Siberia by the hundreds of thousands for opposing Dictator Joseph Stalin's will to force every last Russian peasant into a collective farm (TIME. Nov. 26. 1928 et seq.). Today a fresh battle has opened over Stakhanovism and thus far enraged workers have done most of the shooting. In coal...
...Leningrad after a Communist assassinated Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), industrious Ogpuer Agranov had 66 men and five women shot in four days of star chamber proceedings, caused some 25,000 Leningraders (according to correspondents' guesses) to be deported to Siberia, this example of zeal being known in Russia as "Stalin's Revenge." Commissar Grigoriy Prokofiev of the Ogpu Industrial Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch...
...this love the Ogpu, according to minimum estimates, has tried in its own star chamber courts and executed in its cellars not less than 10,000 Russians; has shipped off to Siberia not less than 1,000,000 and today employs in its penal labor gangs not less than...
Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian...
Month ago Wiley Post abandoned his famed Winnie Mae for a faster, low-wing Lockheed. It was a hybrid ship, with the wings of a cracked-up Sirius, the fuselage of a damaged Orion. He planned to fly it on a leisurely pleasure trip to Siberia, had it fitted with pontoons at Seattle. Funnynan Rogers joined him. at the last minute. Their plans were vague. It was to be a vacation trip by easy stages, possibly around the world, with Rogers paying the expenses and lots of stops for hunting and fishing...