Word: yakovlev
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Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev...
Since 1923 this Big Red has controlled The Peasants' Gazette, the State's mouthpiece to the vast majority of Russia's population and the only newsorgan most Soviet farmers ever see. For twelve long years Hearstian Yakovlev has been stuffing Russian peasants with exciting stories. Today he is more than Commissar of Agriculture, his job in 1929-33. Promotion has carried him to the Soviet agricultural top: Chief of the Agricultural Department of the All-Union Communist Party which is above the State. From this eminence last week Comrade Yakovlev stuffed the third Ail-Union Collective Farm...
...people who read nothing but the Soviet Peasants' Gazette this sounded like the acme of sound facts and good sense, yet Hearstian Yakovlev drew loudest cheers, a veritable acclamation, by another part of his discourse. In this he announced as undramatically as he could Joseph Stalin's most sensational retreat on the agricultural front thus...
...Dictator, who has been from 1930 onward a merciless exterminator of Russia's more prosperous peasants or kulaks, is now ready, announced Comrade Yakovlev, to readmit "repentant kulaks" to cultivation of Russia's farm lands. Since Stalin has exiled some 1,000,000 kulaks to Siberia, where many have died, Russia can now count on the return of the remainder in the guise of "repentant kulaks" to her most fertile lands. Originally these folk were the Soviet Union's most able soil tillers. "These former class enemies," cried Comrade Yakovlev last week, "will now receive lenient treatment...