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Last week Pravda claimed that wayward peasants had increased their personal plots until they had no time left for collective farming, were letting hay rot in the collective meadows. Others were renting their plots, breaking the first Communist commandment by turning landlords. More serious was Pravda's admission that peasants were deserfing many farms. Furious at the never-ending tug-of-war, the Kremlin thundered a rigid new decree restricting all peasant garden plots, setting drastic penalties for collective farm managers who leased land illegally...
Most ominous was Pravda's comment: "Superfluous collective farmers" will be shipped to regions where farm labor is needed. Peasants, who know too well that this means the arid lower Volga, the Siberian Far East where the Soviet Union finds it difficult to tempt settlers by normal means, trembled in their greasy hip boots, wondered if this was the first shot in a new war against the peasants...
...Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
...Soviet Union has put increasing emphasis on provoking a proletarian revolution in other, preferably neighboring, countries. "Internationalism is inseparable from patriotism!" last week screamed Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the Young Communist League. "The extermination of the capitalist environment is possible only as a result of a victorious proletarian revolution in at least several countries...
...before another 24 hours had passed, five of the principal executives of the Young Communist League had been ousted. Next day Komsomolskaya Pravda, under changed editorial direction, was explaining that the League's former leaders had been indifferent toward the welfare of good Young Communists but had protected "inveterate drunkards," "double-dealers," even those who were "morally corrupt." The net of this seemed to be that the exuberant Youth paper had taken a little too enthusiastically the Dictator's plump for World Revolution two weeks before. With Unifier Zhdanov on the job, the Party press and the Government...