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...enter into play simultaneously and collectively." Under the new policy announced by II Duce last week, cut wages will not be upped, but there will be no more cuts. State Nep. In Moscow iron-willed but supple-witted Dictator Josef Stalin went back last week to the maxim of LENIN: Advance three steps, retreat two, net gain...
...Lenin's shrewdest retreat was his NEP ("New Economic Policy"). Having found out that the State monopolies could not supply fast enough the goods which were absolutely demanded, Lenin retreated two steps in 1921 by admitting to Russia private, capitalistic traders nicknamed "Nepmen...
...years after Lenin's death Stalin took three steps forward by abolishing Nep, stamping out Nepmen. Last week Stalin took one step back, permitted correspondents to announce as blatantly as they liked an experiment he has tried out quietly for some time in various parts of Russia: the state...
...three principal Soviet orders are: The Order of Lenin, The Order of the Red Banner, The Order of the Labor Red Banner. Holders of one or more decorations ride free on trolley cars everywhere in the Soviet Union. Two-medal men may ride from one end of the Union to the other and back twice a year. Heroes belonging to all three orders may use the rail and waterways of Soviet Russia free for any distance at any time. Agents of the Ogpu (Secret Police) also enjoy this privilege...
...opera deals with ten days of Reporter Reed's life, days he spent in Russia watching the Kerensky regime's fall, days he reported in his book Ten Days that Shook the World for which Red Dictator Lenin personally penned a preface...