Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than 43% of the present population of the Soviet Union are so young as to have been born after the Bolshevik Revolution...
...More than 30% of the workers employed in Soviet heavy industry this month are less than 23 years...
...Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and André Fran...
...Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk Railway Repair Shop ("Largest in Russia"). A 21-year-old girl, Nagimla Arykova, hitherto the editor of an unheard of provincial weekly in Kazakhstan, found herself installed as the Commissar of Public Welfare of the Kazak Soviet Socialist Republic...
Selected young nobodies like these who have just become somebodies had their pictures front-paged in the Soviet press day after day. In several cases a promoted youth was astonished to find his picture almost as big as the one appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...