Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Stalin says of world affairs makes news wherever he says it. To a war-haunted Europe, the Soviet Union has ceased to be the home of Soviets, of Five-Year Plans and collective farms, of propaganda campaigns and celebrations over the building of blast furnaces-it has become a potential enemy or ally for a gigantic struggle in the making. Imperceptibly, as the menace of war loomed bigger, outside interest in new ways of Russian life ebbed, interest in the Red Army grew...
...comes, the strength, stability, efficiency of the Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains...
Significant to the Soviet regime is that Stalin has chosen the Supreme Council as his sounding board. Since 1930 he has spoken often: to Communist Party Congresses, to graduates of the Red Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first...
...twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which the country is divided, all nominated and elected in the same way. On top of the whole heap is the Supreme Council of two houses. To Moscow last week to hear Dictator Stalin there came...
Nobody expects an opposition to challenge Stalin's speech. Deputies may discuss, argue, criticize specific Government acts, but not party policy. But circulating back to their union republics, autonomous republics, provinces and national regions at the end of their session, they are a part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body...