Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Stalin last week was in such genial spirits that, when publicly welcoming the Soviet North Pole Expedition home to Moscow, he kissed its chief, heavily bearded Professor Otto Schmidt, full on the mouth. Also back in Moscow last week from their Coronation trip to England were U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers...
...probably no place else and there probably will not be. Few, if any, qualified foreign observers appear to believe there is a likelihood of anything more dramatic happening here than a continuation of the arrests, dismissals, trials and shootings." It was dramatic enough that the Premier of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake...
...Soviet industry is still functioning, though in a manner that would be totally intolerable in any advanced capitalist country. Soviet industry and supply have not actually broken down, but are sadly disrupted, and they are becoming worse instead of better...
...Recent disclosures of foreign engineers who have now left the country as a result of the Soviet Union's drive to get rid of foreigners, form a vivid picture of industrial chaos from top to bottom. Foreigners having business with Soviet organizations report them in confusion. They start dealing with one set of executives only to have them disappear and be succeeded by another, who know nothing of what has gone before and who themselves soon disappear, to be succeeded by another set of novices...
...postscript to his series, Harold Denny came through with some official statistics showing that in the past five months the Soviet birth rate has doubled. This major phenomenon is due, of course, to Dictator Stalin's having suddenly last year made abortion no longer legal in the Soviet Union (TIME, July 6, 1935). Communist sex morals had been so loosened by nearly two decades of abortions in State clinics that millions of Russian females have continued promiscuous relations and, without abortions, the increase in births has shot up so sharply that Moscow, with 2,000 maternity beds last year...