Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker stated that the most startling feature of the new Russia is the way in which all civil and judicial functions are handled solely in the interest of the Soviet government. "The courts are frankly political," he said, "If any matter of politics or personal freedom is involved, the only question is: What is best for the soviet government? Schools, industries and public utilities are all operated to the same purpose...
...Soviet Interest Dominates...
...Hays' investigation into the degree of personal liberty among the Russian people revealed the fact that there is much less than in the United States, he said. Members of the Communist party control all soviet-managed enterprises; and as for the mass of the people, Mr. Hays said: "The people are not free according to our notion of freedom; and they're rather cynical about it. The only free speech I heard from anyone was from Americans and American journalists. The Russians refuse to talk about political and economic matters. The soviet system is founded entirely on discipline...
...Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...
...Revolution, Russian newspapers have developed from the surreptitious pamphlets of Tzaral days into voluminously leafy formats. Russian newspaper circulation has mounted from a few thousand copies daily to several millions. Recently the editor of the Worker's and Peasant's Correspondent, the special organ of Soviet rabkors (local correspondents), sought to discover the reaction of a great prerevolutionary Russian man of letters to the new Soviet Journalism. Wrapping up a bundle of representative Soviet newspapers the editor despatched them to famed novelist-playwright Maxim Gorky,* now sojourning in Italy. Reply...