Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 7-Do not fail to bring into relief the super-power and the immorality of the adventurer Stalin...
According to the Kremlin, Russia last week was still full of "Enemies of the People"-Trotskyists and saboteurs hired by Fascist powers. Not less vigorous than Stalin's denunciation of them was his continued campaign to wipe them...
...Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow...
...trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade unions must be overhauled, converted into thoroughgoing "Schools of Communism...
...Army. Ordered established in all military districts were war councils of three, similar to those set up in the infancy of the Russian Revolution when a Red Army was being licked into shape by ex-Tsarist officers who had to be watched closely for signs of treachery. Stalin thus aimed last week at uncovering incipient Trotskyism or other heresies in his hitherto potent military commanders, who in future must get their orders countersigned by at least one other council member (probably a civilian) mainly interested in the welfare of the Communist Party...