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Among endless whispered Soviet quips at Josef Stalin is the one about Lenin's spunky, seamy-faced widow. "Tell that old woman," Dictator Stalin is supposed to have once roared, "that if she doesn't shut up, I'll appoint a new widow of Lenin...
...Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...
...Stalin openly, she hobbled out to the All Union Congress of Young Communist Women and slipped in her covert protest. "The mother instinct is noble, and we consider it a great force, but we do not want our women to devote their lives to rearing children only!" cried Widow Lenin, herself childless and a typical Old Bolshevik, with scorn for the bourgeois virtues. "We do not want child bearing or any other aspect of married life to separate our women from public work...
Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...work that deals principally with the changing moods and movements of nine million soldiers, unknown millions of peasants, hundreds of thousands of industrial workers, individuals can be given little space. Yet Author Chamberlin turns again & again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively...