Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...railways have "collapsed." There were 30,000 accidents during the Soviet fiscal year just ended, 1,000 deaths, 2,000 people maimed for life. During August alone 384 engines and 1,638 cars were wrecked beyond repair. But the railways, driven by the fierce will of Dictator Stalin to fulfill the Five-Year Plan, hauled 3,500,000 more carloads this year than last...
...some Soviet timber is cut by "forced labor," but of a peculiar kind. Diarist Knickerbocker reported that these cutters appear to receive the same wages as other Soviet woodsmen. They are forced not to chop wood but to live in certain forest regions where such labor is the only sort in demand...
...word, the "forced laborers" are former kulaks (rich farmers) dispossessed of their land by the Soviet program of "collectivizing farms." With grim humor, Mr. Knickerbocker was told that in Russia rich farmers had never worked before, would not work except under some compulsion, are now being "taught to work...
...Soviet Union is unquestionably selling grain, coal and oil abroad for less than production cost in rubles at 50¢ per ruble...
Thus the value which a man sets upon the ruble determines for him whether the Soviet State is guilty or not guilty of "dumping." If one believes the ruble is worth 50¢, one finds Russia guilty; if one believes the ruble is worth 10¢ or less, one finds her not guilty...