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...police of the Soviet Union. With some 15 divisions of elite troops and informers in every workshop, they wielded power that until recently was practically unlimited. Merkulov was confirmed as Minister of State Control by Malenkov himself, and he was still officially in office until last week. Goglidze, "the czar of Soviet Siberia," controlled an area almost as big as the U.S. and was responsible, under Beria, for the vast new arms plants that Moscow hopes will one day supply the Red armies in the Orient...
...rose from the benches of the moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...
...production. After 36 years in power, during which they had total power to make over the land in their own image, and by their own theories, the Communists officially acknowledge that the Russian people, in 1953, are eating less high-protein food per head than they did under the Czar. And the people work harder for it than they did 30 years ago, as the following U.S. Government tables show...
...reindeer herders, Mongol tractor drivers and Cossack commissars. There are 20 million Moslems in the U.S.S.R. All of these diverse and frequently antagonistic peoples are ruled by the Soviet elite: some 50,000 ministers, managers, army officers and intellectuals, who are more removed from the people than were the Czar's nobility...
...Czar himself came to see the aerial behemoth and presented Sikorsky with a gold watch bearing the two-headed eagle of Imperial Russia. Igor was 24, one of the world's leading'aircraft designers and a famous man. In a few years he was worth half a million dollars. During World War I he shuttled tirelessly between his factory, which built four-engine bombers, and the front, at times taking cover from showers of steel arrows which German bomber pilots dumped on Russian airdromes. Then came the Revolution. Sikorsky left Russia with one suitcase and a thin sheaf of English...