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me+hnil ? "in. tba st .. ggle for better use of equipment and for the improvement of
labor productivity. "" The Novosibirsk district Party organizations are castigated
for :f a.il %,?rag to give ""due attention" to the experience of the. primary Party
o gaa~:i, Asa t i on ; in the ex l,arge?d collect i.ve farm. s (16 May)
Soviet patriotism is given stereotyped treatment in .the editorial of 17 May which
cites the oversubscription to the recent State Loam as another Proof of Soviet
en;t ,isi,a,a and patrioth,w. KS .DIaSKAYA PRAVDA of the same date, however, is
more specific on the subject when i t; s ys that TXSoviet patriotism. is a self-denying
effort (s ootverzhennayts. rabota) of million: of workers, peasants and
intell ,gentsia. , .. Patriotism ii given, further definition, in a quotation from
the 11 r teenth volume of Stalin's works-,. "The revolutionists of all countries look
with hope on the USSR as the hearth of the liberation struggle (ochag osvoboditelnoy
borby) of. the working people of the whole world and see in her their only. fatherland."
, o 4as? ll~~c3 a The, controversy over the publication of suitable books for Soviet
children dates back to the first five-year plan when all the publications for
child en were designed to fit into the general pattern of the plan. The familiar
nursery rhymes and fairy tales were more or less frowned upon in. official oir les,
and stories about great production achievements, labor heroes, and production figukes
to bring a change in the official attitude., and the old fairy tales were revived
for w ride d.Iistribu.t?I.on.
That the situation may have changed since, or is in the procdss of changing, may
be glean ed: from PRAVDA.'s implicit admission that the subject of books for children is
still a, touchy one and is discreetly avoided by those directly concerned
"The thirteenth, plenum of the Union of Soviet Writers, has critically
evaluated the position of children's literature and proposed measures
for its, further development. However, over one year has elapsed since
then but the leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers has, until now,
not put the question, of children's literature at the center of its
atte ?.?tion. ""
Writers, editors and critics are therefore urged again to fight against "ideologi-
cal rejects" in literature designed for children, and work for a, high. "Idea
eonte tll '(i.deinoe -,odertzh rie). The term "Mea content" i.a not amplified in the
editor. al., but the broadcasts for children of 8 and 16 M ., "Plonerskaya Zorka""
(Pioneer's Reveille), may serve to shed some light on what children may hear (or
read.):
""...Cb.uxchili aid his accomplices delayed the opening of the second
front in Europe) and the American imperialists secretly supplied the
Hitlerithus with war materials.
"'The North Atlantic Pact is a, mail itary alliance of the imperialist
birds of prey (It.iachni.,ki) directed,. against the Soviet Union and the
countries of the People's Democracy. (16 May)
"Their idea is to fight with other people's fists (chuzh:i.mi rukar-i)..
"Truman.. without asking his allies, appointed the are:b-warmonger,
the American General Eisenhower, as comman.der~.i.n-r~hief .... In Europe.
this General had to travel in. a closed car and under a strengthened
guard because ever rher?e he was surrounded with the hatred of the
people...." (16 May)
The desirability of a Peace pact between the five great powers is stressed in the
editorial of 14 May not so much for the sake, of peace itself but as a means of
offsetting Angl_o-Aner?ican war preparations.
"The five great powers--the United States, the USSR, the Chinese
People's Republic, Great Britain, and France play a particularly
important part in international relations. They bear the main
responsibility for the preservation of peace 'in the world.
That the Soviet Union is the or. y power to have discharged that ""main responsi-
bility" Is made clear in the concluding part of the editorial., where Stalin 's
quoted as saying that . the Soviet Union "... in the f ztur?e, as before (v buduschem
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knic . v l ? oa U.om), will, infallibly pursue the policy of preventing war and
pr c-,~r, r zring peace." O Iously eno"ugh, the Chinese People's Republic is not listed
as a "peace-loving" state in this context along with the Soviet Union.
Radio lay, observed in the USSR on 7 May, occasioned voluminous comment on the
progress of rad.ioftcation in the USSR and the prodigious efforts made by the
Soirie 6 in the construction of radio stations and relay stations (radio-.uzli), the
piodu^. tD :on of receiving sets and installation of radio--audio points (rad.iotochl .)
and loud speakers. There is no mention in all the material available of the type
of receivers distributed among the population, but the frequent references to radio
cables and relay stations suggest that long-wave or 1u*-powered sets are the rule.
Ar Ord i kl to .phut ev, Min-r o ter of Commur i.cati,on,, of tb USSR, the number of radio
center,,, radio-t acnt:r?y) ha increased by 75%, and In the rural areas by 128%,
as compared with 1946, and in 1950 alone ""several, thousand kol.ometers of under-
ground cable lanes were laid. (T S, 5 May)
Puzin of the USSR Radio Information Committee says that last year the radio industry
produced. 50% more sets -then during the whole prewar period, * and Marshal Peresypkin
of tht Signal Corps claims that "there were two and one-half times more radio sets
p e; d In 1.948 than in 1940. _ . .
(1?.ASS, 6 May) ~~.z~.?~ also mentions the fac.t that
"the So-t,riel radio broadcasts for its listeners abroad every day in 34 languages,"
and c o mn ntator Lapin says that "the Soviet radio transmits . in 0 languages ken,
SPO
the peoples of the USSR. "" (?in Danish, 7 May)
Leaving the present for others, engineer Klementyev looks into the ?ca.?t ?e of radio
With its possibilities and predicts the following developments:
"...The ti,-pip will. come when... long-distance control of machines by
will also be widely developed.. Jet aircraft controlled by
radio will be carrying mail with the speed of lightning over
lzrcmentlous distances. Radio-controlled projectiles can rise to un-
explored heights. Radio-controlled rockets can. investigate inter-
tell ar space. (Home Service, 5 May)
The degxree' of" I SARM pej ?- .cipat ion. in the development of radio is indicated by its
c^ha i.rir.an V.I. I u.znetsov, Who stated that last year the DOSAW amateurs, of various clubs "" v tilt- and installed in villages over 60,000 var;ior s types of rad io-receiving
sets, 43 radio-ke1.ay centers and over 47,000 relay receiving points." The
Leningrad :1 SARM, he said, was recently awarded the Challenge Red Banner for
excellent work done,... The table below Indicates the available radio facilities
in some areas and the expansion percentage in others, as announced in the broad-
casts
Loud 'petiakers,
radio-audio points
(radio toethki)
Relay
Stations
(radiouzii)
Receiving
sets
Radiation
power
increase
lllcra.i.?e
163%
22.
460%
Poltava
70,000
120
I?i rovograd
200%
300%
500%
250%
7%
1 2 a aSl
(network expansion)
300%
G_eorgian ,SSR
102,000
259
A enian. SSR
44,-9000
MoldaR thi SSR
55,000
150
..f&enhai E . S :
500%
Stavropol Krai
Crimea
30%
100%
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on the number of radio stations. Puzin.: "The na:anber of Soviet tratibmitters, 4 has
exceeded lia jrftw ? level by 75%"", Psurtsev: "'A. ccta aa~?ed . l;clb, the number
of radio centers has grown. by 75%...."
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geg. In a talk on the postwar^ five-year plan (Home Service
12 May)
bolaatkth
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say that the nuber of workers and employees In industry in 1' 50 terse 39
2 million
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7.7 mu.l,w.ion more than in 1.949. The principal soiuce of that increase during'.the
yr-.,ar i s given an the de obial.ization of the armed forces and recruiting by the labor
riser'ves my;ru stry. The latter,, however, i said to have l rovided 3
5 million
.
wo irk i - fir industry " ..r.1 the postwar years, 11 presumably five years, that is about
700,000 annually. It would, appear then that the demobilization of the armed forces
i , 1950 alone added 7 million workers to industry. This figure is misleading,
ho~revet?, because (a) ;f he' n ber of yo ?.g men (and women) ?~ho reached working Sage
in 1950 e.:s not. mentioned, and (b) no reference is made to the number of young men
of draft age in 1950 who were undoubtedly withdrawn from industry.
A. s e i,:1,a r lack of specificity is ,'iown in Lopatki.n I s reference to the workers 8 Wages.
T e to t,a.l. a Mount of wages of workers and, employees at present IS said to be more
than double the pr?ewa:r level. But here again there is no indication whether the
total zmo~unt is f iguured. in terms of purchasing power. Moreover, -t. e lage-scale
applW c at x,o;n of the wage differential, introduced in the early thiraties, makes it
imp ible to arrive at any average wage ffig e, especially since the salaries of
z a gag men.t personnel (who are required by law to be trade union members) are also
inr l.ude;t. in the total, amount of Workeras' wages.
A?r_ optimistic a.rtic:l.e in IZVESTIA by Minister of Oil Industry Baibakov (17 May)
said t:hp t. k )y the end of the five-year plan the "entire centt?al, part of the Soviet
MA o , the-, hitherto unexplored areas of the Black Sea coact, the Donbas and a
nuart?her o f- other areas had been careful ey inve ta.ga tied by drilling." The intensive
S3ear:rh for oil in the USSR, may be taken for granted but the probability that the
"earefr l investigation" ha not as yet juctif'ied expectations may be inferred from
Ba.a.bako,v ts_ further reference to the subject: research work will allow
thhe geolo,gist;s to dizscove:v new oil deposits in areas where no oil was expected so
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Ba:i hatenv also speal s of the '`acute' change" that the oil geography of the sou ti?y
uccidevrwe.n . In the la .t five year;, he say::;, the eastern oil areas produced 12.3%
of rhlre too . al. of l obtained in. the country, and in 1950 their share of the total
l noon t.ion climbed, to 44%. While, it may be true that in 1950 the' prewar level of
oil pr^nduc`tpion was exceeded by 2 , it is impossible to estimate what such an
increase actually represented in terms of tons or barrels since no absolute figures
on oil production are ever revealed by the Soviet GoverDment. Similarly, it is
not silent whether the change in the production, ratio between the eastern and
wes terlo areas has brought about higher production in the east or a lower output in
the west.
~` sixes, An INESTIA editorial of 16 May ^ aid that "in the prewar period 113
million square meters of, floor space were b-(Alt; this amounts to almost half of the
hcx ,ps in the Soviet Unions" These figures, indicating ought7.y only 250 million
square meters of floor space for about 200 million population, do not take into
account the number of dwellings destroyed during the war. According to the State
Planning Cormalttee announcement of the five-year plan fulfillment' (16 April), 100
rr~.i 1.? r o:~r? square meters of floor space were built and restored during the five ye' anrs,
but tt ere is no indication as to what part of the total destruction was restored.
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c ?t, t . critic, ism. of various br^anch.es of agricultuxae, initiated by IZVPSTIA
(U rT.a;r 'and PRAVDA (15 May), affected, an area including Beloru sia, the Ulalainef
North Caucasus and the Kaza.'. SSR. Most of, the charges are levelled at -the poor
peiforrii .noe in the, preparations for spring sowing and livestock raising. IZVESTIA
complains that "in several, areas of the country, the decision of the Party- and the
f' very aF n t on the creation. of a strong fodder base has not been fixlfi.lled, ... " This
is said to account for the unsatisfactory sowing of fodder crops and grasses..
Listed as th.e chief culprits are:
L,uihyshev, Saratov and Chkalov oblasts --
Cheruigov, Vcr i byn., Dragobych and
Stanislav oblasts (Ukrainian SSR,)
A% 0 U I Till P3,
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smaller amounts of
perennial grasses hav
sown than last year.
of fodder crops
had not fulfilled even half
of the plan of the sowing
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been sown than last year.
,sin;ti.ve far ns of Belo seia. -_ considerably less annual gran
PRAM qu tx ? at, length from the penitent letter of the ?ai:rd, an ag?ricultu ral
workers to Stalin ad. tt.,ting dereliction of duty, and hopes that their appeal. will find
:d r-e8 nsea throughout the, rctuntryi
""...Ou:ar .Re'pta.bl..:i.c, on the whole,, ?i" still ih debt t:o the state as regards
stp:i nrber of industrial end. oil crops, milk and other food deliveries.
"We -low that there are still. many shortcomings and a serious lag in the work
of marry" collective farms and machine-tractor stations; we know that local
i"i,r?ces are, Iuffic.ient:ly utilized.. ..""
The 1(, `?A a,TANSK.AYA P.RAV A editorial of 8 May also takes a dim view' of the agr?ic .tural
t,~aa t io = i~ the epubl..i.c, and says that it is "awraong and hat9mfu.l.... not to note the
aer,l to short comings exLa t ing I.P. the sIng sowing. 11 The East Kazakhstan, Pav odare, North
'Lind SSem0 palatfnsk, oblasts are accused of "unbearable slackness" in the sowing
Of ,sst.1srY ex crow-, Thi.s i..s .particularly true i .' East Kazakhstan where a number of rayons
?tzhe aprinn ao*ing by only one third. t' The machine-tractor situation in the
ReputeI god,, says the paper}, is not much better since in many places the machine is used
only during one shift, and fr"eque~nt breakdowns, and lack of fuelo nd water render them
idle ""e Fen daring the dayt"ime.... In the North Kazakhstan obiast, for example, the
r i5--horsepower tractor is Only 4 hectares,"
daily trt$ "t t pe
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with thr fry na admission . that the livestock industry of the whole .Republic i,s In bad shape. F
"The (:a:r Bless attitude of the beads of many rayons in nine oblasts has r,9-
suited In the fact tha;t`, the livestock breeding plan for 1550 was not ful-
filled by the kolkmozes of the Republic on. even one index.""
'ERRA (trorca l,lovg?ra.d in Ukkrai ctiie i., 11 May) says that "the'' three-year
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cortn.9i al 1.ivsstc*ck development plan is not treated, seriously everywhere... "' and points
to the verdic~ y and De]..civodskyr rayons where the livestock plan has fallen far short
of t2 he :mark.. The B to rc~d s by rayon also appears to be l r of something directly at
irarian e- with the agricultural artel statute: "The rayon was censured for the
frivolous sale of young livestock, butt this harmful p Lice has not been stopped."
Refers Ing to the p.rodtu.c.tivity of the _ livestock., another admitted sore spot in Soviet,
. t~?',,C.t..l.ture, the PRAPOR PEBY.M001 editorial, is still more bitter in, its criticism. ;..,
"It is sufficient to say that during the past year not a single rayon in.
the oh a ,t fulfilled the set quotas for milk yield, sheared wool yield,
egg laying yield and other produce yields.
A. MOL ' ed1torls.1 (Rostov, 12 May) assails the ""?irresponmsible attitude" ass?amied by a
number of agricultural officials towa.r?d the plan for combin.., nd x?a t cto that rt repairs iwhich
sowing of
flay, J, our kolisfhozes proceeding very slowly worse than last, year.,,
;sfcl ~ . are .1,s considerably less csrit"i.cism, on the Soviet radio of industrial pro-
duc: "tin as a whole than of a .g?r,?.icul Lure. Deputy Minister of the Ferrous Metals Industry
Ku ni: reminds the workers that "production of ferrous metals, and especially of cerrtain.
kinds of rolled st;eel, is lagging belai.nd the, Zrt wi ~r, c of the people's economy." As
pointed out in CPWW Report No. 2 (l6 May), page 7, this e roor"tation is not necessarily
Indicative Of :l agg! g production, but, more probably, of an upward revision of the
metal, production quota.
The lie MTS' KA UKR.AIRA (Voroshilovgrad, 12 .~.y) appeals for the improvement of the metal-
li:wg i a. i nd.uestry in the south, and, blames erratic work and wastefulness for the low
production:
"Th.- main source for the (decrease) Of production is revealed by the fact
that several plan?ts* work; erratically, fail to utilize existing machines
to full capacity...
I'Striking e,:a mple' Of such wastefulness are in the Makievka Kirov plant and
the Dnepropetrovsk Petrovsky plant which are responsible for the major
of the i""roduction. debt to the state accrued, as i result of the various
failures in. the fulfillment of the firs-t.-quarter production assig nts.
.t lthotsgh the' above editorial points to only two of the Voroshilovgrad plants as examples
of poor work, it y s obviously directed against the metallurgical industry of the Donets
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Professor Plotnikov discusses the "peace-lcav mmg" feature of the Soviet state budget
vismsa-vle the 'ow. g b u d g is of the major capitaLiat countries (H o Service,
4 ,y) and reiterates the announcement by Finance Minister Z rev (3 May) that the
Soviet defense budget for ? io year amounts to 96.4 billion rubles or 1.3 % of the
total bud g ? . Aside om the fact that no breakdown of Soviet
budgetary ever revealed, it is not even clear what lo is
particular ministries are directly figures
involved,
in defe ct work. It is not own, for example., whether the tank-making industry is
under the a nts or auto-tractor rin.istry.* There are at least five ministries
which, are directly involved in defense work, in addition to the MVD and MGB minis-
tries of the security forces,. War, Navy, Aire, - nts and Shipbuilding,
Another mtn stry, ""Ministerstyo gotovok" (Procure ut, Stock-piling), although
dealer with unprocessed food supplies and, other raw materials and ostensibly not in-
cl d. the fe e setup, may easily be part of the military establishment.
F. WINYME
As a rule Radio Moscow confines itself to discussion of the collective rather than
the inciividlal welfare of Societ citizens.** A typical reference to welfare would
refer to working population as a thole, and even in such cases a number of essential
details would be omitted and absolute figures avoided wherever possible. An attempt
to arrIve at average in point of individual material welfare is further compli-
cated by the fact that such welfare varies with the category of workers and employ-
ees, industry and lo6aiityo It is known, for example, that before the abolition 'of
the ration card system, the average income of a Moscow industrial worker, while very
low by Western a t a n , ias incomparably higher than that of a Kamchatka fisher-
men. ,Individual welfare issue bees still more obscure if one takes into
account tie special stores and,coope ,tiyee attached to or izatio and plants
and .ich have varyiag degrees of membership limitation.
Candidate of economic sciences Gurov does not add, anything to the picture when he
cites the mat improvements in the material. welfare of the population,
The sale of industrial goods to the population increased by 85
percent (as compared with 195)... in 1950, the state and co
operative shoee sold 3 more shoes, 47% more cotton, linen and
Silk Materials,, 39% mom hosiery than in 19400
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television and an apparatus for suturing blood, vessels have now been added to the
IOU9 list of Soviet "discoveries.," and Academician Skobeltayn?s researches in nuclear
ph ics are said to be directed "tovard extendi, and deepening the terialiatic
conception of the universe. " The first cathode y television receiver (electro y luchevoy television y pri ik)
was designed in 1907 by Prof. Roamn' who built the first working model television eat
in 1911a (Bc service, 7 May)
The auto-tractor ministry itself may not be an entirely peace-tint industry,
since even the very limited number of passenger automobiles it produces is not for
the public o The major products of that industry, in addition to tractors;, are
trucks of all, sizes o In the accepted Soviet vernacular, both trucks and passenger
automobiles are designated by the s 'word, "a?to mashi.na".
For a more detailed analysis of the subject see F.B.I.S. STJPPIZMW TO SURVEY OF
USSR OA ASTS, 12 December 1950.- Omdesions in Soviet Radio Discussion of the USSR,
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Scientist ; y - J s x. w Vas the f i t, .sr L8?s 9 to eeatablish the law of the cellular
basics d dy &o.% formffi of 111e. (4 y)
The yak. of Ac e,cdomd.c lan . o e~lte and his collaborators
( esot iki) o .oe a,v i cleerl co i that resew a aces in the
field of mucles ptb sic t, ft2tt& ce im scie ntie ebro strive
to mwInt, a bu h,x_ ~, f . ? alll P ig d, &re dli rectea by S . et
e ,ientiete to en. tie s,. lu 1. of the problempf the structure
of aAtter, to 5:f& t ie &i ;a mil, t *e i .i ; them teri.aliet con-
ccepTtion. t of tkax
M oo ouas broad,(>eet for poii.tiCal s~hool1 a nts (Eomvn Beyr ice, 10 May) stated
that thca v nr N people of %tjc, rig , , ev :~ TU sh~~ri. fir the workers else Whore.,
1 tw_~ ae 5 e o e the prolets bat since tb t teams, implies an
e no
opj essed? T ki r lees e p~s~1, in , of th aae-ene of pa ?od tion, which is definitely
not the case ivi the TTEsIR. n mm, it 'oe ?aet tuz tee te:1 ee saying that "the
worker cl ee of the U SER le prapt of the vo5cid p %1etas_~'ie t . " The. o exership of the
meats of vro ocvtiou, :,)% the other hand, i.e ?i,rc orib M by the existence in the
UWM_ o f "two f a = w , of eoc.iali.At cx ,erehipo the state e a, rehip and
the cooperative
and cob e ive. "it 'The .MUcw t. of the Soviet j' 1or.Cy skid "U .erthip89 o,ypJ6 ~lohe means of pro-
duction w.w , also he j' ` e by the fact t: ,t the iocr a.1 in iaietriee of the USSR, run by
cov, ti e aW, t a~ i "fi =r ft thee ~mv- ete e of the rep , have also been un3:-
fied um-&_7e a c1.Wle U 30A i?S bet; y of ti oe , IMdu etric e .
"itoy"" euapcarf`uou pe.pl f.'s a teau,er to o theno,et radio or
in the pa: cee 'F,baut it ie3 eI1 ik oc ?i t c) e ry So et citi e . The oe eg ry includes a
lare. Cu0 er? of olc pC iaie p et s o,,&, i. s e who for e e reason or other are in-
ellgiblc fa perutio (c st: a:.d, eT AA %A11 recent y~, it e1' so ineludedl persons
d ;gri d. of their rs tion ix:a} asp p u: +d1X ni for vamiauk &. wee of malfeasance.
Just how hese "? 1.ehhentey" abRaeil. td by the tote a i-' the' absence of lfare
orpnizetic ,s ft tw c etc ra s c , z Ka aoty be t e M0 And that this in s'till the
official ettituudle t?r cfi~6 uatt>ti people is i,n+tii tee In the above quoted.
broa a,ste for (c%li.tioal etu ste a,: ,coh ,ted, the old Soviet dictum that "he vho
d.oees not, work,, B,eitber ebe ll. he eat"? ( o ne )ota, t, trot ,e ;et) .
r he. 3o et r Io eel&x 1 d. ~R,_- r see R si I . U : ,i s e or flier Slate abroad as
ethnic 9WOUPR for the rdsal reason, free the Soviet point of View, that
tirmality ie not i Ucati-tct of o i ee stets end, is therefore irrasTant. The
fl.. ?e't in .ccetic; that t !iss s titu has eb .d a :L n by Molotov In 1x939 when
be said that the 5oor et er y etad Into Poland to liberate "our blood brothers.,
the U ainialut anua .j~ a~'N 1 S e then 5'C 4 .d F I Po i.o
In a recc e iclea in, str? .ply r ci iscent of Hitler's approach
to the Suad ten U r m&e ue"stion, Cina*n.' of the Slav Cce Ittee of tae USSR Gundorov
speak of the perseac>t io to the ' ,~ , ) to cOo ? u ?a,inia s in Canada are
sub je c 0 nlfie G?e M1a go nt, says Gu~.:MMc o'irev, "di tba ded the Confederation of
ukmixiffict W o r k e r s 1 a F e has oba d ; o s a w s Ukrainian p a p e r s and con-
fiscatc d l : the e n t i r e pru rte;y of t h e b a r n I . . "'" just hay the Canadian TJk-
rainians feel ( , p r cps, should feel) about all this, is fu her clarified. by
G, dory ar in the foil g p saga o
`he October evolution in. Thesia, the f'orss,tion ,thin the fram
work of t eet UUni.cn of a Umien Soviet State,, contributed.
qtly to the progress of political con ,cioauenese of the Tik aind
is in. C a to the ? -tMz ang ' nircug of their cultural and, political
ccrMtcatio o (17 V)
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J. PERSONNEL CHANGES
New names
USSR: Orlov, Director of the European Section
of the'Foreign Ministry p(15 May)
Kirghiz SSR: Makhmetov, Chairman of the Supreme
Council (17 stay)
Koshmuratev, Finance Minister (17 May)
Uzbek SSR: Tashidov, Chairman, Supreme Council
(19 May)
M. Isametdinov, Finance Minister'(17 May)
Replacements USSR:
K. LENIN AND STALIN
Kulazhenkov, vice F.F. Molochkov
(Chief of Protocol Division, Foreign
Ministry) ' (15 .May)
Z.K. Sivolap, vice D. Pavlov (Minister
of Food Industry) (9 May)
D.V.Efremov ister~for vice
Electrical Kabanov
(Ni..n ectrical Equipment
Industry)
Kabanov released "in connection with his'
appointment to other responsible work."
(5 May)
Stalin's growing stature vis-a-vis Lenin was"given another boost by Academician
Vvedensky who, speaking on Radio Day (7 May), made it appear that even Lenin
associated everything great with Stalin's name:
"On 15 October 1919 Lenin instructed the military council to send
to'the southern front 50 radio stations... to this instruction
Lenin,a4ded: Stalin demands it:"
A similar reference to Stalin as almost more original than Lenin appears_in the
PRAVDA editorial of 5 May which says that PRAVDA 'was founded according to the
directives given by Lenin and on the initiative of Stalin."
L. 4laCELLANEOUS
The statement issued by the Communist Party of Israel pointed out the "great aid
rendered to Israel by the world peace camp, headed by the Soviet Union, in the'
cause of the achievement of state independence." (TASS, in Russian for abroad,
11 May)
The London DAILY WORKER'reports that agents of the American police in England "have"
miniature cameras with which they cafi inconspicuously photograph political suspects,
unreliable persons and other objects." (Kiev, in Ukrainian, 15 May)
TheElacen Sea sneers Fleet ndinecthe following types of workers for permanent .employment:
"naval needs hanics, engineers and technicians, hydro-technictans,
biologists, naval communication engineers, construction engineers, navigators and
mechanics of all grades, electromGdhanics,"wireless operators, boatswains, machine
and motor en sneers; electricians, fitters, sailors, dockers and all kinds of
laborers,." Odessa, in Ukrainian, 4 May)
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