Word: bolshevik
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet schools marked their pupils excellent, good, medium, bad or very bad. Word had reached the U.S. last week that Joseph Stalin's Government has discarded this marking system along with coeducation, the Godless society and the Internationale. The new marks are 5 (for excellent), 4, 3, 2 or i. This is the system used under the late Czars...
From faraway Moscow had come blunt talk about the legerdemain with the Blue Division. The Reds, Franco saw, were onto the trick which had dissolved Spain's proud contribution to the anti-Bolshevik war-by reclothing some 1,500 men as members of a new Spanish Legion in the Wehrmacht. Other blasts from Moscow spoke of oil and bread and strategic materials which Russia thought Spain was still sending Hitler. Franco could shrug; the outbursts were plainly directed at Russia's Allies, held no special meaning for Spain so long as they produced no change in London...
...anthem was written by Red Army Chorus Leader Alexander Alexandrov at about the time of the Old Bolshevik purges of 1936. As if the Soviet left did not know what its right was doing, Soviet hymn singers called the tune the Old Bolshevik Hymn. In 1939 it was awarded the coveted Stalin Prize. Its recent metamorphosis from hymn to anthem required a change of only a note or two and a new set of lyrics...
Moscow's Pravda, over whose editorial attitude Joseph Stalin reputedly has considerable control, responded to Mr. Willkie's homily with the choicest selection from a Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense...
...Christmas in Russia* last week, and for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution Russians crowded Orthodox churches, with the blessing of the Soviet Government. Moscow's 50 churches were jampacked. Patriarch Sergei (TIME, Dec. 27), recovered from the flu, celebrated the Christmas service in Moscow's Bogo-yavlensky Cathedral. Worshipers were packed so tight that few of them could raise their arms to make the sign of the cross. Outside, the cold streets were thronged with reverent crowds...