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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industrial Ambassador. Nine agents of the Ogpu, or NKVD as J. Stalin now prefers to call Soviet secret police, went last week with Ambassador Davies in the special train put at his disposal to tour Soviet industrial centres in the primarily agricultural Ukraine. His private car, furnished free by the Government, was what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Anyone can take exactly the same 2,000-mile trip made by the U. S. Ambassador last week, under the auspices of Intourist, the Soviet State Travel Bureau, but not with the same super-service from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...trial to Rostov. Everything was going beautifully except that neither the First nor Second Five-Year Plan has yet shown Plant Manager Kartsashev how to deal with snow. In Rostov is now the largest theatre in Soviet Russia, typical of the diffusion of entertainment to the masses in which Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini are at one with the principles of President Roosevelt's WPA theatres. Cried the Ambassador, "Magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding a Communist State at all. Today Dictator Stalin is creating as much in the way of Russian centres of industry and war bases as possible behind the Ural Mountains. It is no secret that the Soviet General Staff have plans ready, in case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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