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Though the court sat in Gerasimovka, an insignificant village in remote Sverdlovsk Province in the Ural Mountains, every detail of this "propaganda trial" was published and broadcast throughout Russia. Too many villagers had stabbed and hacked the two "good children" for all the assassins to be shot. One woman and three men were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Three of the condemned were close kin of Pavel & Fedor...
Pavel and his little brother Fedor were the sons of Trophim Morosov, easy-going chairman of a remote village Soviet in Sverdlovsk Province in the Ural Mountains. So far as Moscow knew, Comrade Morosov was busy organizing collective farms, but Pavel and Fedor knew differently. When a State grain collector came to their village Pavel, that model child, peached on his father, denounced him as secretly in league with Kulaks, charged him with obstructing collectivization and screamed: ''I demand that father be severely punished...
...Ural Oil? A big new Russian oil field would relieve the shortage of kerosene in Sovietland. It would also give Russia greater bargaining power in international oil meetings. Last week Russian scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...
...shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...revolutionist but no Bolshevik, Vladimir Zenzinov was later a member of the Government in the Urals which fought against the Soviets in 1918. When Dictator Alexander Kolchak overthrew the Ural Government Zenzinov escaped, now lives in Paris, foments trouble for the Soviets...