Drift, Distraction, Dictator

Drift, Distraction, Dictator

How far the Soviet State has drifted from its proletarian moorings further appeared last week when Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was quoted as defending the present employment of most Russians on a piecework basis: "The chief aim of Socialism is to raise the productivity of labor."

Also drifting away from Communist marital freedom, the State had left the price of a Soviet marriage at two rubles last week but raised the price of a Soviet divorce to 500 rubles.

Another recent drift was Dictator Stalin's abrupt dissolution of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, hitherto Russia's Communist elite. While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei may be tortured into making a statement of some sort tending to incriminate his father in Soviet eyes.

"It was an arrest of pure vengeance," declared Mme Trotsky. "Sergei never occupied himself with political questions. . . . The authorities allowed members of our family either to accompany us when we were exiled or to remain in the U. S. S. R. Sergei decided to remain so as not to be torn away from his scientific work. . . . With two other colleagues he published recently a special work entitled Light Gas Generators of Automobile Tractor Type. This book, published by the Scientific Automobile Tractor Institute, was warmly received by the outstanding specialists in the field. ... I will not speak of the methods by which Stalin obtains the confessions he requires!"

Distracted Mother Trotsky then challenged Irish Bernard Shaw and French Remain Rolland to dive into the Soviet Russia they hold in such high esteem and find out what has happened to her son.

Meanwhile last week Soviet newsorgans reported that Dictator Stalin had gone unannounced for a stroll in Moscow's Park of Culture & Rest, the result being that he was soon surrounded by an enthusiastic group of little boys & girls who called him "Uncle Stalin."

Interviewed was small Boris Brenner, a 10-year-old Young Pioneer who seemed to have been first to recognize the Dictator. "When we children surrounded Uncle Stalin and blocked his way," chirped Boris, "Uncle Stalin said, 'Hey, fellows, how about some order here?' But we kids didn't obey and continued to shout 'Hurrah!'"

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