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...John, a schoolteacher of Crewkerne, England, wrote to a North Wales friend that the Marshal's father was really a Welsh technician, Charles Jenkins, who went to Russia 61 years ago with Schoolteacher John's grandfather to work in a factory at what is now Stalino...
Stalinski, just north of Moscow, and Stalinogorsk, to the south (important now because it supplies more than half of Moscow's electric power), were both in the paths of the German pincers on the Capital. Stalino, capital of the Donets region in the eastern Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near...
...Gorky automotive works the Brothers Ivan and Feodor Kriachkov assassinated their fellow worker Ivan Schmerov because he had speeded up his daily output 200%. Tried before a military tribunal, they were sentenced to death. In the coal mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov...