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...Russia the Soviet secret service has had a long and fascinating history, increasing in respectability with the years. Members of the dread Tsarist Okhrana were remarkably successful in insinuating themselves into the Cheka of Lenin which conducted the original so-called "Red Terror." So odious did the Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...
Notoriously it has been necessary to staff the higher branches of the Red Army with former Tsarist officers who have been gradually retiring as younger Communist officers step into their boots. Announced Pravda last week with pride: "The commanding staff who participated in the recent Kiev maneuvers were about 6% workers and 30% collective farmers. . . . The commanders of the Red Army are assisted by the attentions of the Communist Party, the solicitude of the Soviet Government, and the fervent love of the Soviet people." Simultaneously the Government abandoned for the first time the Communist doctrine that Russia's army...
With General Goring, who is also Premier of Prussia and German Air Minister, attending to Poland and Hungary, Realmleader Hitler himself attended to Lithuania last week. This new Republic seized Memel from beaten Germany after the War. The old frontier between Tsarist Russia and Kaiserish Germany ran along the edge of Memel through what is now Lithuania. Last week the 80,000 Memelanders were to elect 29 Deputies to the pigmy Parliament of their minuscule semi-autonomous Territory. Nothing was at stake except German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about...
...Youth of Maxim in the cinema trilogy which won first prize at Moscow's Cinema Festival last spring. Like Chapayev, which dealt with an incident in the early days of the Russian Revolution, and The Youth of Maxim, which was concerned with the first serious labor disturbances in Tsarist factories, Peasants takes collective farming as its theme, consciously makes of it an advertisement rather than a drama. Like its two predecessors, however, it is an advertisement so forcefully constructed and so intelligently presented, that, even for U. S. audiences who cannot understand the issues involved and would be unsympathetic...