Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pinned her faith in collective security. Since then Belgians have seen the League fumble and haggle while Dictator Mussolini walked into Ethiopia; they have watched Dictator Hitler's Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them devout Roman Catholics, hate. More recently they have watched 27 neutral nations ignominiously fail to let Spain destroy itself unassisted...
...Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under him resembled Roman Saturnalia. The picture of debauchery was made to look a trifle brighter by suggesting that the Ogpu Chief's most depraved carousing and seductions came toward the close of his public career when he realized that jail was but a few jumps ahead. Item: the State press...
...Union's chief standard works on jurisprudence used in its law schools. Suddenly last week all law books by Pashukanis had to be confiscated, Soviet law students and their professors were left stranded. Reason: Old Bolshevik Pashukanis had suddenly been attacked in the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") by Stalin's favorite prosecutor of Old Bolsheviks, tigerish Andrei I. Vishinsky. Without waiting to get the Soviet Union's No. 1 jurist so much as arrested, Stalin's Vishinsky raged in print that the Law's Pashukanis is "a double-crosser who has turned the Soviet...
Such goings on as these about Yagoda and Pashukanis last week did more than any rumors or inside stories could have done to disclose in the Stalin Dictatorship shakiness, uncertainty and jitters. Excitable Vishinsky's reasons were not hard to seek. In 1917 the Russian Revolution was against juridical and police tyranny by the Imperial Government...
This may be a beautiful concept of Soviet law but it has been found not to work by J. Stalin. He and his tigerish prosecutors want no Soviet judges trained up that way, and the Dictator is on his way to get results, even if he has to break every Old Bolshevik in the country...