Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Stahlberg to walk to the nearest town. They got home safely but the country was shocked. In Finland the Lapua (antiCommunist) Movement had just succeeded in driving Communism out of the Diet after a whirlwind election campaign whose tactics included kidnapping Communists and booting them over the Soviet frontier. Dr. Stahlberg had been rumored as listed among the bootees not as a Communist but as a Progressive, oldtime foe of the conservative parties. Finns have regarded the Communist kidnappings with marked complacency, but kidnapping their George Washington was another matter. Something had to be done. Detectives worked furiously. Last week...
Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili, whom Lenin nicknamed "Stalin" ("steel''). last week did what Moscow correspondents have been prophesying for many a day: booted out of political office all the Right Wing leaders of the Communist party, house-cleaned the Soviet of all but strictly pure Stalinite department heads...
Most important head to fall was that of lantern-jawed, saturnine Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, President of the Union Council of People's Commissars, or Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. Month after month Rykov's removal has been rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding...
...balance sheet of the Five-Year Plan [today] at the end of its second year, the credits appear to overbalance the debits. ... No branch of [Russian] industry [has] failed to increase its output. . . . The representative of one of the great central banks of Europe . . . told me he considered the Soviet Union a perfectly sound risk for trade credits up to three or four years...
...early days of the Soviet regime the mortality among women undergoing in the State hospitals what would be in other countries "illegal operations" averaged 32%. Thirteen years of practice, according to Miss von Wiegand, has reduced this figure to 16%, "a 50% gain in the humane direction since the revolution...