Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this possible? According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the Young Communists, thousands of Soviet officials have been asking themselves this question for the past three months. Knowing that Joseph Stalin in his youth was educated for the Orthodox priesthood, knowing that the Dictator has proclaimed the new Soviet Constitution to be. "The Most Democratic in the World" (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante), and having only the text of the Constitution itself to guide them, these thousands of Soviet officials have not known whether to believe their eyes...
...News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State and he glibly cites from the works of Marx and Lenin passages which suit his purposes. Indeed Soviet newsorgans have been complaining that often the village priest seems able to confound the village Communist leader by superior erudition in the works of Stalin himself, greater familiarity with the lengthy...
...Contributors to Success." Whatever may be Dictator Stalin's personal views on God and Orthodoxy-he buried his second wife in a onetime Orthodox convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932)-Soviet leaders who are with Lenin against God were vastly relieved last week at signs that the past three months of leniency and revelations concerning the persistence of religion in Russia do not actually mean that "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World" grants in fact what is granted in words by Article 56 of the Electoral...
...registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante...
...have been premature. They are to be printed with the names of nominated candidates and but a small percentage of the nominations have yet been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected...