Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something happened in Soviet Russia, last week, which Dictator Josef Stalin took every means to conceal?and his means are efficient, ruthless...
Subsequent mailed and smuggled despatches did not fully clear up a mystery which Soviet censors would not permit to be mentioned in cables. Seemingly Dictator Stalin was holding the sword of banishment in suspension over opposition necks, waiting to see if opposition heads would kowtow...
When copies of Soviet Government newspapers were received, they bristled with propaganda tending to prepare the public for the descent of the sword upon Trotsky and his followers who were described as "political cockroaches" . . . must . . . be sent away out of the proletarian family...
...recently legalized death sentence for proven corruption in a Soviet official was applied, last week, for the first time in the case of Director Poliakov of the State Bank Grain Department and an assistant, M. Telesnin. Their crime: granting concessions to private businessmen in return for fat bribes...
Comrade* Otto Schmidt, 37, learned editor of the Soviet Encyclopaedia (in six volumes), long prominent as Director of the State Book Publishing Monopoly, was announced by Moscow journals, last week, as the new Soviet Ambassador to Italy...