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Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
...again for the unsuccessful uprising of 1905. He was caught, tried, once again sentenced to Siberia. This time he escaped before he reached his place of exile, got to the railroad by reindeer sleigh. He rejoined his wife, went into exile again in Europe. In Vienna he started the Pravda, famed newspaper. But by this time Trotsky was known to most Foreign Offices as an undesirable alien; one after the other the countries of Europe ejected him. Finally he was deported from Spain to the U. S. In January 1917 he landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke...
...many years have passed since angry Cromwellians flung toward Rome the horrid epithet "Whore of Babylon," that even English Protestants were shocked and horrified last week when the official Soviet news-organ Pravda applied to Pope Pius a much milder epithet, "Heavenly Liar...
...Holiness that religious persecution in Russia shall cease. After the service a collection was taken up, to be used for relief among the persecuted. Since the Soviet Government maintains that no persecutions have taken place (TIME, March 10), it was this prayer and the collection which caused Pravda to refer to Pope Pius, first as "Heavenly Liar" and secondly as "a Godly Thief...
Writing with stark frankness last week in Pravda (Truth), Dictator Stalin denied reports that a kulak, after the Government has seized his land, will be allowed to stay on it as a humble toiler on the Government's "collective farm." In the Dictator's mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...