Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed last week to the newly created post of unifier of the Communist Party's Press Section and the Soviet Union's Propaganda & Agitation Department was Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 42. Comrade Zhdanov, noted for his purging zeal, during the past year has been one of Boss Stalin's two top assistants in the Communist Party's secretariat...
...Soviet Union has put increasing emphasis on provoking a proletarian revolution in other, preferably neighboring, countries. "Internationalism is inseparable from patriotism!" last week screamed Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the Young Communist League. "The extermination of the capitalist environment is possible only as a result of a victorious proletarian revolution in at least several countries...
...trial in Moscow last week, accused in the Soviet Prosecutor's scathing phrase of "producing 2,000,000 imaginary pencils," were the Soviet executives of the famed Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil Factory...
...State bought the factory in 1930 from the famed Hammer family, U. S. small-businessmen who bought a pencil-manufacture monopoly in the Soviet Union from the State under the NEP or "New Economic Policy" of Nikolai Lenin. They cleaned up huge profits making pencils for Communists to plan with, and the Stalin State finally paid the Hammers $1,000,000 for their going concern, let them take out Romanov antiques which they now sell on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
Meanwhile, there were signs last week that the Soviet Union's rulers at last realized that conditions in the Commissariat of Agriculture had become dangerous. I. A. Benediktov, formerly a Vice Commissar, was named as the new Commissar, equipped with the full powers to "coordinate...