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...southern front, he ruthlessly purged collaborators in city after city recaptured from the Germans. By 1947 Khrushchev was able to report: "Half the Ukraine's leading party workers have been done away with-65% of the presidents of regional soviet, two-thirds of the directors of tractor stations...
Pyramid of the People. Half the people of the Soviet Union are Great Russians; the rest, a score of races, speak 200 different tongues and dialects. There are Tartar horsemen unchanged since Genghis Khan, primitive Yakhuts, Samoyed reindeer herders, Mongol tractor drivers and Cossack commissars. There are 20 million Moslems in the U.S.S.R. All of these diverse and frequently antagonistic peoples are ruled by the Soviet elite: some 50,000 ministers, managers, army officers and intellectuals, who are more removed from the people than were the Czar's nobility...
...dragooning the peasants into agrogorods, equipped with tractor fleets, Khrushchev was confident that he could mechanize Soviet farming. He also expected to mechanize the farmers. Soviet geneticists (e.g., Trofim Lysenko) have erected into Communist dogma the notion that man is mere animal, condemned by nature to acquire the characteristics of his environment. Khrushchev tested the theory in his agrogorods. Just as the Soviet factories had produced a "new Soviet man" (e.g., Khrushchev), so he believed that the agrogorod environment would develop a new agrarian robot divorced from the muzhik's "old village backwardness...
Sanare's Tractor Sir: I am much taken by your Oct. 26 article "A Tractor for Sanare" ; of a people financially limited but spiritually rich trying to improve their condition. I know they have the best wishes of many people, but perhaps they Tractors should need have fuel and more oil - than and just one wishes. tractor must feel very lonely in the mountains of Venezuela. Enclosed please find my check for $25 for the people of Sanare and their tractor...
CARLTON F. EVANS Atlanta ¶TIME has forwarded Reader Evans' check to the Friends of Sanare Society, which bought the tractor...