Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
Economic Intervention. Lastly, Dictator Stalin stated with apparent deadly seriousness that the Capitalistic Powers, having failed to penetrate Russia by "military intervention" in 1918-20, are now seeking to subvert the Soviet State by "economic intervention carried out by bourgeois technicians...
Throughout the Soviet Union it is a grim jest to say that neither the Voice of God nor that of the People can be heard above the silence of Comrade Josef Stalin. Always shabbily dressed, the Dictator prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central...
...concluded: "For the future there are only two possibilities. Either we pursue our revolutionary policy in organizing the proletarians suppressed in all countries around the working class of the Soviet Union-in this case international capital will attempt to prevent our promotion by all means-or we abandon our revolutionary policy and make a number of concessions to international capital. In the latter case international capital possibly would be willing to assist us to degenerate our Socialist State into a bourgeois republic...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...