Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention by the "Mistress of the Seas...
Acting on his latest hunch, Joseph Stalin was busy last week regearing Russia's whole economic machine with a drastic accent on Youth. Only 28 years old and only a candidate for membership in the Communist Party, a machinist named Yakob Yusim had just been promoted straight from the lathe to be director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk...
Conservative estimates place the number executed in Joseph V. Stalin's current "blood purge" around 500. In addition to these admitted executions, tens of thousands of unadvertised arrests have been made in the past three months in the drive to wipe out opposition to the Stalinist regime. Persons accused of being "wreckers, Trotskyists, Rightists, diversionists, counterrevolutionaries, saboteurs" are in fact generally guilty of just-one common crime-deviation from the "party line." So changing, undefined is this line that almost every Russian writer or speaker on Soviet politics, art, literature, social studies, must have been guilty at one time...
...days before this anecdote was published in the U. S., in the U. S. S. R. Moscovites were gasping at an editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial...
...Soviet Lindbergh" was left behind at the last minute and Valeri Chkalov took his place. When the second successful junket was made month later by three other Soviet airmen, Flyer Levanevsky began to be mentioned in dispatches as in jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin's current purges. Last week, however, when the third flight was launched, it appeared that the great Levanevsky was not in the Soviet doghouse at all but had merely been kept under cover for the most ambitious transpolar hop of the summer. He promptly proceeded to bungle...