Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Germans wondered why Molotov would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German...
...same process has been applied to the wage earner as well. . . . The whole effect of the growth in strength of the trade union movement-indeed, one can say its deliberate intention-has been to divorce the worker's income from any dependence on the efforts he makes...
...eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...
...Chose Freedom is the rehearsal, some 250,000 words long. The curtain rises in 1905, when Kravchenko was born in the Ukraine, son of a railroad worker. After the 1917 revolution, he says, his father exclaimed joyfully: "Now people will be free. It was worth fighting for." But Father soon changed his mind, having "no stomach for dictatorship and terror . . . even under a red flag." Victor, however, joined the Communist Party in 1929. "It seemed to me the greatest event in my life. . . . I was dedicated forever to an ideal and a cause...
...original (he refuses to name his translator and collaborators because disclosure might be "embarrassing" for Kravchenko). The Republican New York Herald Tribune brushed Kravchenko off as an ex-Communist, out to justify his disaffection. The Herald Tribune, snipped Kravchenko, is a "Park Avenue version of the Daily Worker...