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Round Russian peasant tummies now contain almost twice as much bread and liquor made from grain as in Tsarist days. So said, last week, both kindly Soviet President Michael Kalinin and ruthless Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin...
Explanation may lie in the fact that Tsarist landlords underfed their peasants and sold abroad what the hungry would have liked to eat. Today, with the peasant master of his Fate and Farm, rural tummies are full to bursting, and urban workers are experiencing a slight vacancy under the belt...
...Petersburg. After a prolonged inspection from dubious and dull-witted cinema censors, this interesting though not entertaining production was permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin...
...Thirty five million in 1927, although 68,000,000 enjoy the franchise and the population totals 143,000,000. Only "productive workers" over 18 and soldiers & sailors have the right to vote. Disenfranchised are employers, clericals of all religions, and affiliates of the fallen Tsarist Regime...
...Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...