Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian workers last week continued to rejoice over what they could buy with their new rubles, the New York Times's careful Will Lissner cut through the mishmash of economic terms, got down to a bedrock comparison. He drew up a comparative table showing what the Soviet and U.S. worker must give in working time in order to get the same quantities of food and other items. Samples...
Comparisons such as Lissner's would not prove that capitalism was a better system than Soviet socialism. They did prove, however, that 30 years after the Revolution, Russia was still giving its workers less than 10% of what an "exploited" worker under capitalism got for his labor. If the Russian worker got ten times as much instead of a tenth as much, he might-just possibly-consider that living in a police state was worth the price...
Playwright Thornton Wilder learned that he was a banned author in Germany's Soviet zone. The Skin of Our Teeth had the wrong "theories about the inevitability of war," and Our Town had the wrong attitude toward family life...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
...tomb was the body of a young man lying beside the girl. He had been killed by a blow that crushed his skull. Perhaps he was a servant, or a warrior sent to protect her on her journey. The Soviet diggers favored a more colorful theory. Around the young man's face was tied a false beard. Perhaps, the fanciful diggers conjectured, an older, more powerful man had sworn to follow the girl over the frontier of death. Thinking better of it when the time came, he killed a youth and disguised his stand-in with a beard...