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...Russia there is little room for such ideologically unorthodox characters as Baba-Yaga. Since Lenin, writers of the new Soviet skazki have been instructed to fashion their fairy tales as "pictures of the Socialist way of life."* But Soviet writers cannot always follow Soviet Socialism. In Moscow last week Baba-Yaga might have chuckled a hearty witch's chuckle. Two of her Socialist successors-Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb-were being boiled...
...Among Bolsheviks, a danger-laden deviation. Lenin said: "Pacifism is ... Popish sentimentality...
...much had Russia accomplished by the great ruble reform (TIME, Dec. 22)? Ever since Lenin decreed the creation of a nonprofit society in Russia, peasants have made trouble and speculators have made profits. Last week, hard on the heels of a reform designed to squelch troublemakers and profitmakers, both were busy...
Last week British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, standing before Lenin's portrait, briefed the Party Executive Committee on the new party line from Moscow. British Communists must pep up their policy of gnawing into the trade unions and nagging at the Labor government (which they helped to elect in 1945) for cooperation with the U.S. Pollitt declared war on the Labor Government, which he sneered at as "Right-Wing Social Democracy." British Communists, said Pollitt, must start an organizing drive among trade unions. Their immediate objective was the same as that of French, Italian and U.S. Communists...
...Stalin type, the creator of Plans, will be revealed in his full stature; works in which will be shown how the will power of that man was forged, how his soul was formed and how his consciousness was strengthened, enriched and armed by the teaching of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin." The injunction is often taken literally. In a new Moscow play The Great Days (see cut), Playwright N. Virta has included a big-as-life Stalin and Molotov and a baggy-pants Churchill, who looks like an angry W. C. Fields...