Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critical, sarcastic, Boob-Baiter Henry Louis Mencken should abandon the American Mercury and edit a Happiness Monthly and Rotarian Booster, it would not arouse greater surprise than the announcement from Moscow last week that a new Soviet magazine. Our Achievements, has been started under the editorship of Maxim Gorky...
Gorky, world-famed as a beetle-browed dramatist, storyteller, vagabond, and apostle of gloom (The Lower Depths), has decided that the mass of Russian journalism, directly under Soviet control though it is, is far too self-critical. Our Achievements will paint only the bright side of Soviet life...
This paradoxical change in a man whose earlier work dealt exhaustively with harlots, drunkards and rat infested cellars, is partially explained by the enthusiastic recognition which the Soviet State has given him as an oldtime enemy of Tsarism...
...Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know the difference...
...public funeral was held the next morning. The president of the Village Soviet, slightly conscience-stricken, allowed the local priest to officiate...