Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs. To obtain these edibles they had forged government food cards wholesale. Guilty of "private trading," they had incurred what Soviet citizens call "the highest measure of social defense": execution...
Meanwhile one Aaron Kopman, a U. S. citizen sentenced to a Soviet forced-labor camp for selling things in Russia, but released through the efforts of the British Diplomatic Mission at Moscow, told a Hearst correspondent last week more about the crime of "private trade...
...under these conditions that Soviet lumber is produced which is now flooding the world markets...
Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
...this, as in all Soviet post-revolution cinemas, propaganda is paramount, though more subtle. It is a one-actor show as opposed to the mass-action of Potemkin, Ten Days that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival...