Word: vyacheslav
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...card system, a daily nuisance to every Russian to whom it has not been a curse, had lasted longer than the World War?six years. Most Russians felt as if there always had been, always would be bread cards. Suddenly at 12:30 one afternoon last week Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov called in reporters who found him twinkling behind his spectacles...
...Died. Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky, 60, head of OGPU, Russia's Secret Service; after long illness, in Moscow. Died, Blaise Diagne, 61, Senegalese Negro member of the French Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Paris. Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab...
...Moscow last week the 17th Congress of the Communist Party received the expected declaration from Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov that all members of the Soviet Government and Communist Party remain committed to make every effort for the destruction of all capitalist government. "Appealing to the millions of proletarians outside the Soviet Union," cried Premier Molotov, "we declare that we connect our fight for the victory of Socialism inextricably with the revolutionary struggle of the workers of the world against Capitalism! Our Party [i.e. the Russian Communist Party] is growing and strengthening itself as the vanguard of the Communist International...
...Thundered approval as spectacled Premier Vyacheslav Michaelovich Molotov, after burrowing through his usual mound of statistics, emerged to say that the Second Five-Year Plan, now entering its second year, will "make life brighter and better for our people." Claiming that the production of Russia's heavy industries was upped 11% last year and that bumper crops had wiped out the grain shortage, Premier Molotov admitted that the meat shortage is still acute...
...higher group. Since the Communist Party authoritatively pervades all the groups or Soviets, even the highest, Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party is Boss. When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank...