Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When daring Spector & Myznikov went so far as to enter the stores singly and have relatives and friends do the same and insist on buying records, alert Stalin Secret Police were soon on the miscreants' trail. They were accused in court last week of reselling their phonograph records privately to more timid Moscow music lovers who make their purchases in the safety of dark alleys rather than in the State Music Stores. The court sentenced Spector & Myznikov to seven years each in jail, gave their accomplice's from six to five years each...
...sold some $30,000,000 of machines to the comrade who was then Soviet State Buyer No. 1, long-jawed Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk. Since 1932 he has been Soviet State Planner No. 1, and his latest Five-Year Plan is especially behind schedule in Heavy Industry. Last week J. Stalin made the now necessarily friendly move of having Buyer-Planner Mezhlauk appointed to replace the late Grigoriy Konstantinovich Orclzhonikidze, as Commissar for Heavy Industry. Russia's planners and Russia's performers, inevitably, blame each other for Five-Year Plan setbacks and it is no bed of roses...
...Davies has now met either officially or socially all the important Soviet leaders, except Joseph Stalin, and is said to have won top marks in all directions...
...hundreds of Moscowites attending a play two nights before, visibly in high spirits, yet the official verdict was death "after long illness." It was said that she always insisted on tasting the Dictator's food before letting him touch it, and ever since her passing, which affected Stalin so deeply that he had her buried in consecrated ground, any death in the Kremlin has set tongues wagging "Poison...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...