Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cheers were not louder even in Moscow last week, where convalescent Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin made an almost exactly similar theatre appearance. Comrade Stalin clapped an actress who sang a Georgian love song. King-Emperor George V clapped vigorously the lilting, sentimental songs of plump, brunette Edith Day, born 33 years ago in Minneapolis...
Laborites fiercely defended their Government in both Houses of Parliament last week, battling on four major Empire issues: Unemployment; Disarmament; Dominion Status for India; Resumption of Relations with Soviet Russia. Jabs were scathing, digs sharp and deep. But on the whole the debate was the most vital and constructive of a lackadaisical Parliamentary year...
...encouraging private trading in fish and caviar" 14 minor Soviet officials were shot at Astrakhan, since their villainy had resulted in a sales loss of $4,500,000 to the Government Seafood Trust. One hundred and nine accomplices in this orgy of "CounterRevolution" (highest Soviet crime) were sentenced to imprisonment...
...opposition to the Government's grain collecting campaign" (TIME, Oct. 28), 50 "kulaks" (rich peasants) were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...
There were no executions last week for murder pure and simple. Killing is no capital crime in the Soviet Union unless committed in some way against the State, for example by shooting a grain collector...