IN THE
REPORT ON
RUSSIANS
Creating a Modern
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OUSES of glass are realities,
H today and, if you wunt to give-
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make the windows seem impor
tant. One way is to fram e them in i
a group by covering the wall und
leaving the glass exposed
a cabinet post in the Western coun Ladoga's ice; the top layer had
tries. For this change. H itler is melted, but cars were traveling hub-
deep over the lower one.
largely responsible.
After the 1917 Revolution, most of
A scale model of Leningrad's
the Orthodox Church leaders em i bread factory shows how it oper
grated to the Balkans, and Hitler, ated without electricity or running
as part of his invasion plans for water. A collection of lamps was
the Soviet Union, seized on this his made from bottles after the elec
torical background. He established tricity gave out. There were also
a number of Orthodox churches in exhibits of the daily bread ration
Berlin, including a cathedral, atyd as it had to be successively reduced
earm arked millions of reichmarks because of dwindling supplies. The
An Inexpensive chintz with grey-giccu
for their support. After he invaded smallest was 123 grams (about 4
ground and a llowcr pattern la used fur
France, he commandeered silk to dunces) on December 25, 1941.
draperies and to trim the couch cover
make religious vestments. When he
heavier «ray-green cotton m aterial '
We are shown pictures of people id
which Is also used for the cushions. The
entered Russia, he proclaimed him
pulling the bodies of their dead on ¡! «lass curtains are hung on rods suspend
self the Protector of the Russian
sled* through the streets toward ed from the picture moulding with pic
Church; every German arm y quar
ture w ire and hooks The side drapes are
term aster was equipped with these cemeteries. But the reporters tell unlined but the valance la made over
me
that
bodies
frequently
were
kept
buckram. Both are tacked to pine strips
vestments
as
well
as
sacred
church vessels, and churches were in the house or buried after dark, so and are hung with picture hooks One
end of the book shelves Is closed In to
everywhere
re-opened
in
the the survivors could continue using make a head for the couch. The outside Is
the food card.
Ukraine.
painted grey-green and the Inside dark
A most interesting series of mont green Tile parchment lamp shade has
When the Communists dropped
green bindings
their anti-retigious propaganda, and ages is devoted to the partisans,
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a
a
suspended the official publication explaining how organizers are para
N O T E : This decorating Idea la from |
for the Society of the Godless be chuted into occupied areas, how the BOOK 9 which cumtalns more than 30
cause of a "paper shortage," their bands camp in the forests There are other suggestion* for hom em aker*. Copies
critics in the outside world insisted photographs taken from German are 15c postpaid. Send direct to:
that these moves were only to im prisoners showing the execution of
Russian girl partisans.
press foreigners.
M gS. R U TH W Y E T H SPEAKS
The famous Leningrad electrical
These critics were wrong: the
B edfsrg H ills . N . T .
D ra w e r IS
Enclose 13 cent* for Book No. 9.
P arty had sounder domestic reason* plant is named for Kirov. Stalin's
for changing their policy. For the close friend, whose assassination in
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Germans were making headway in 1934 started the big political purge
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the Ukraine with their religious of the Communist Party. It employ*
propaganda. Not only was it popu only 3.000 people. Before the war
la r with the older people, but 8,000 worked here. It now produces
many of the young were joining the no consumption goods—only genera
Germans. During the final stages tors, hydro-electric turbines, and
of the U krainian mop-up. the Red electrical equipment foi* the Red
A rm y came on entire regiments of Army.
Ukrainians in Germ an uniform.
At one point girls working at a
A* further answer to this German row of benches are winding and as
propaganda in the Ukraine, three sembling a small electric motor.
dignitaries of the Russian Orthodox E ric says it is a standard type
Church were invited to see Stalin which sells for $55 in Am erica. He
and on September 4, 1943, a form al knows, for he makes and deals with
reconciliation was effected and the electrical equipment at his Spokane
Church got its place on the Council factory.
of People’s Commissars. This is a
They tell us 250 people work in
complete reversal of the action of this division, turning out 400 mo
January 23, 1918, which separated
tors a month. So we do a little figur
Church and State in Russia.
ing. At American prices, these mo
A further explanation of the
tors would bring a monthly total of
change
is
that
the
Bolshevik
$22,000. If divided equally .among the
P arty now feels strong enough to
20 assemblers here, each would
tolerate, even to recognize, the
get $88 a month, -which is almost
Church.
exactly the wages they do get, in
The party has not overlooked
terms of the actual purchasing pow
the fact that a patriotic, nationalis
er of the rouble.
tic Church can be as useful to their
This leaves nothing whatever for
regime as it was to the Romanov
dynasty. The State printing presses overhead or the wages of the m an
in Moscow are now turning out beau agement, nor does it allow for the
tifully printed religious books for the cost of the wire and m etal parts,
use of the" Church, and it has con since these people only assemble.
Russian women bnilt many forti
Obviously, if their factory is to
sented
to the establishment of a
fications during the war.
make a profit, that little motor must
seminary for training priests.
Although the Church is now recog be sold for at least double what It
and orderly like Germ an entrench
nized
and tolerated, it is not official would cost in America, and this be
ments everywhere. At this point the
G erm an line ran through a little clus ly encouraged. The P arty realizes cause of the inefficiency of Soviet
ter or houses, which was a co-opera the new policy is popular abroad, production methods.
One worker turns out only 1 6 /K
tive farm and had been heavily and strengthens in Am erica and
shelled by Russian artille ry because England both its own position and motors per month. Is it unskilled
near it the Germans located one that of its friends in those countries. management or unskilled labor?
of the big siege guns which pounded Consequently, it encourages all news Whatever the answer, the picture is
Leningrad. The Germans got their stories and picture layouts coming the same in almost every plant we
gun out but its great emplacement out of Russia portraying the new visit.
remains, a careful job of concrete state of affairs.
The main Kirov plant before the
work and camouflage.
Something of the basic attitude to war, the director says, employed
Already the people are returning. ward the Church, however, may be 32,000 workers. How many now? He
We see three ragged women picking seen in a little thing like electric dodges—almost the only tim e any
about the ruins, trying to put on one light rates. A state-owmed store pays one has refused to give us a frank
end of a room a tem porary roof only 1.18 kopeks per kilowatt-hour answer. The plant functioned all
blockade,
producing
which w ill shelter a stove from the for its current, a home user is through the
rain. A shy, chunky, nineteen-ytar- charged 5.S. while a church must mostly ammunition for Leningrad's
R ec ap Your
defenders. Now its principal work
old g irl,, dragging from another pay 41.
ruined house a heavy rafter, passes
The case is fa r different with the is the production of tank motors.
T ire s F o r
us on the path. She is in rags, but Church of Rome. This has become
A particular grinding machine is
they are clean rags. Her hands important only since the war, when presided oyer by a beautiful g i r l -
S a fe ty
have calluses as thick as those of a the Soviet Union absorbed the Bal tall, blonde, and blue-eyed but her
stonemason.
tic States and parts of Poland, all of Slav face is unusually grim . She
Leningrad's people are tremen which contain many millions of Ro can’t be more than twenty-two. She
explains she works not for the extra
dously proud of their city, and re man Catholics.
Some concessions have been made.
gard themselves as culturally supe
rio r to the rest of Russia. They are After H itler's attack on Russia, the
also proud that they were able to Soviet’s Polish prisoners of war
internment
hold the Germans for weary, starv were released from
ing months at the city's gates, and camps and organized into several
finally hurl them back. They are con divisions originally headed by Gen
temptuous of Moscow which they eral Anders. The Soviet government
have always regarded as an over permitted the teaching of the Catho
grown peasant village,but particu lic religion to their children in spe
la rly now because of the panic which cial Polish language schools, organ
swept Moscow when the Germans ized by the Soviet Department of
were at its gates.
Education. Anders was also per
H alfw ay across Leningrad we en mitted to have thirty-seven Catholic
tered the Church of St Nicholas. chaplains for his seven divisions.
Regardless of the basic contempt
The church was built in two eleva
tions and as we clirntjed the stairs, of all Communists for religion, the
we heard singing. We had blundered Orthodox Church is a purely Rus
in on choir practice. They were all sian institution, and its clergy are
women in early middle age, very now as completely obedient to the
well dressed by Soviet standards Krem lin as they were once subser
vient to the Czar. But the Pope, an
and decently dressed by ours.
Presently there appeared a man Italian living in Rome, is another
who apologized because the Father matter. The Soviet Government per
him self was not here, but volun mits outsiders to have little con
teered to show us the various altars tact with, and certainly no authority
Hundreds of thousands were made
over, the people within its borders
and the miracle-working ikon.
homeless in Leningrad district.
So as long as the Soviet Union con
We asked how the money was
tains within its frontiers a consider
raised for keeping the church in re
pay but from hatred—her father and
able Roman Catholic population,
pair, and were told that the state
mother starved during the siege. At
any agreement between the two
took care of this.
the factory, she says, the workers
could only be an armed truce.
ate grease from the guns and oil
Communist P arty members con
The Leningrad Defense Museum
tinue their private contempt for re turns out to be an enormous w orlds j from the machines.
ligion. They regard such doctrines as fair type of exhibit telling the story
The Germans occupied Peterhof ’
the forgiveness of sin and the im of the city's recent siege.
and all Leningrad’s other suburbs.
m o rtality of the soul as childish
In the lobby there is a bronze For instance, Llgova was a subur
superstitions on a level with palmis statue of Lenin, addressing the peo ban town of 35,000. When the Rus
i
Listen to the
try.
It is highly improbable that ple during the Revolution. There are sians reoccupied it, they found not
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anyone holding to any of these be dozens of groupings. We are shown a living soul. The same with Push
kina,
which
had
50.000,
and
Peterhof,
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every Monday evening
liefs would be regarded as fit for how Leningrad’s luxury and pre
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membership in the Party, which in cision industries mobilized for war. which had 45,000. Peterhof—a beau
over NBC.
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Russia is the only road to power.
Here is the telegraph apparatus tiful palace copied from Versailles,
However, the Orthodox Church is connected with the line laid under but painted the Im perial lemon
now the officially established church Lake Ladoga, Leningrad’s only com yellow. It stands in its beautiful
o f the Soviet Union, with a rep munication with the rest of Russia gardens, a stately roofless r u in -
resentative on the Council of Peo during the siege. There are pictures burned by the Germans.
ple'« Commissars, corresponding to of the transportation system across
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If allowed this much freedom, one
might want the right to quit his fac
tory job and start a crossroad store,
exploiting his neighbors by selling
them merchandise from a tempting
ly convenient location, thus disrupt
ing the plans of the Soviet Food
Commissariat.
They would point out that under
capitalism such little men often
m ake mistakes, locating crossroad
stores where there is no need for
them, and then go broke.
H ere competition with the state is
outlawed, so inefficiency is protected
and the people accept it because
they know nothing better. Occa
sionally some Russian expert re
turns from abroad with the news
that keen capitalist competition has
developed a cheaper, quicker way of
doing something. Then, if he can get
in to see the im portant commissars
and beat down the natural inertia of
a bureaucracy, the new system is
installed
throughout
the
Soviet
Union. But more often than not capi
talism pioneers, while socialism only
copies.
We continue on out the paved road.
When it ends, we bump over ruts to
Germ an fortifications They are neat
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