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According to Pravda, official newsorgan of the Communist Party, the counting of ballots cast in the Stalin District on the outskirts of Moscow, where the candidate was Stalin himself, was an occasion tense with emotion. "The first envelope is slit!" exclaimed Pravda. "All eyes are directed to it. The chairman takes out two slips- and reads loudly and distinctly 'COMRADE STALIN...
...Against Stalin?" Under the Electoral Law no candidate may run for more than one Russian parliamentary seat, and Stalin, the perennial nominee, withdrew his candidacy in all constituencies except the Stalin district of Moscow. "Who will feel like competing with Comrade Stalin [in the Stalin district]?" asked Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the Communist Youth, and its editor "guessed" that all the other candidates in the Stalin district "probably" would withdraw. They did. Nearly two years ago Joseph Stalin told an interviewer: "You are puzzled by the fact that only one party will come forward at the elections. You think there...
...nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty...
...enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands...
...have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which Soviet Leaders were still...