Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advanced Soviet Press effort to sell speedups to Russian workers as something of which they should be proud, while still picturing speedups as wicked in Capitalist countries. Recently 3,000 Stakhanovites of both sexes, including Comrade Alexei Stakhanov himself, were feted in Moscow by the Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin. Reported the official Pravda, "Stalin spoke briefly for about an hour...
...usual the text of the Dictator's speech was withheld to receive careful editing. Last week, carefully trimmed, pruned & polished, it was available in the U. S. Not since he ordered the kulaks wiped out has the Dictator spoken more momentously. With the arrival of Stakhanovism, in Stalin's opinion, the decisive page of Soviet history is turning. Neatly Soviet papers printed that Stakhanovism's Great Stakhanov at this juncture cried: "I do not know why this movement is called 'Stakhanovism.' We have drawn our whole inspiration from Comrade Stalin...
With this tribute of Lindberghian modesty from Stakhanov, Dictator Stalin pronounced one of those great Bolshevik discourses which Workers of the World seldom wade clear through...
...Stalin on Stakhanovism: "The Stakhanov movement cannot be considered an ordinary movement of working men and women. It is a movement that will go down in the history of our Socialist construction as one of its most glorious pages. Wherein lies the significance of this movement? "Why did Capitalism defeat and master feudalism? Because it made society wealthier. Why must the Socialist system, of economy inevitably vanquish the Capitalist system of economy? Because it can furnish society with more products and can make society wealthier than can the Capitalist system of economy...
...exceeds that of the foremost Capitalist countries. The Stakhanov movement is such a movement. It opens up new prospects for the practical strengthening of Socialism in our country and for turning it into the (world's) most affluent land.'' Communism at Last? The main smash of Stalin's remarks on Stakhanovism was intelligible only if one realizes that the Soviet Union has never been Communist, is not now Communist, but hopes some day to become Communist. Today it is Socialist, after a fashion. Years ago Stalin referred, somewhat wistfully, to "Socialism, that first stage...