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Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...except the Livestock Exchange in Chicago, for livestock is perishable, its distribution must go on. By that hour the three-block-long factory of the American Bank Note plant in The Bronx was roaring with activity, with police at the doors to keep the inquisitive away. At 1 :oo p.m. 100,000 citizens whose banks were closed saw Citizen Roosevelt transformed to President...
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Perhaps because he is an unpolished writer, Engineer Walter Arnold Rukeyser is bluntly convincing. He wrings the reader's heart by telling how the hearts of himself and wife were wrung when the merciless Gay-pay-oo (Soviet Secret Service) would seize and carry off, perhaps to Death, some Russian engineer with whom Mr. Rukeyser had worked. Relating how he had to point out the honest mistakes of one such Russian engineer to a Soviet technical authority, Engineer Rukeyser writes: "I felt as though I had killed...
Soon the Gay-pay-oo did make off with this man and "I never saw him again." But Engineer Rukeyser bluntly concludes that to force a people like the Russians into Industrialization such methods are necessary, adds that for a Russian to be arrested by the Gay-pay-oo does not mean either death or molestation in most cases, always means a heart-straining scare...