Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Illiteracy...
Please give present percentage of illiteracy in Soviet Russia as compared with United States...
...Illiteracy in Soviet Union (according to American Russian Institute): about 20%; in U. S. (1930 census...
...textile strike. In a raid on union headquarters, Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed as a professor. Three vanished. One fled back to America and died. Fred Beal and one other eventually returned and were imprisoned, Beal to serve 17 to 20 years...
Fugitive Mr. Beal got in bad with the Russian comrades by finding a worse situation in Soviet Russia. Said he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here. The union officials . . . ate well, but the workers were hungry and they were in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...