Father & Sons

All Russia heard last week about the "good children," Pavel 13 and Fedor 9, tender martyrs to the Communist cause. Soviet moppets are taught from kindergarten up that good children spy upon their parents, grandparents and older people generally. Such people, the State fears, may be anti-Communistic (i. e. old-fashioned).

Pavel and his little brother Fedor were the sons of Trophim Morosov, easy-going chairman of a remote village Soviet in Sverdlovsk Province in the Ural Mountains. So far as Moscow knew, Comrade Morosov was busy organizing collective farms, but Pavel and Fedor knew differently. When a State grain collector came to their village Pavel, that model child, peached on his father, denounced him as secretly in league with Kulaks, charged him with obstructing collectivization and screamed: ''I demand that father be severely punished!"

Promptly easy-going Trophim Morosov was expelled from the Communist Party, banished from Sverdlovsk Province. Not long after, a number of Kulak boys including Pavel's cousin met Pavel in the village street. They left him beaten, severely discolored. The village policeman refused to act until Pavel brought documentary proof of the assault and the nature of his injuries. Sticks & stones might break the bones of Pavel but they could not change the stalwart Communist principles of Pavel and little Fedor. They went on with the good work of peaching on Kulaks.

In September Pavel and little Fedor went into the woods. A group of villagers, boys and men with long knives hanging from their belts, found them there. While the terrified children clung to each other, somebody made the first stab. The savage villagers cut their bodies to pieces, buried them under the pines.

Last week the Soviet State began the job of avenging Martyrs Pavel & Fedor. Their murderers were rounded up, herded into court and a typical Soviet "propaganda trial" began. Presumably several of the knife-handy villagers will be sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Orators all over Russia will point the moral, urge good children to continue to peach and if necessary die for Communism, sure that they will be avenged.

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