Lend-Lease

The Soviet Union has a social system of its own, but borrows from others. Last week it disclosed three borrowings: from idolatry, graven images; from capitalism, graft; from tribal jurisprudence, group punishment for individual guilt.

P: Artisans at the famous Lomonosov Porcelain Works in Leningrad carried Soviet iconography to new heights with an eight-foot vase glorifying Stalin.

P: From Moscow came the official announcement that an industrial purge, ranging from Leningrad to Tomsk (Siberia) was in full swing. Factory officials, whose activities ranged from coal mining to automobile manufacture, were charged with mismanagement, corruption, embezzlement, forgery.

P: Because "many" Chechens and Crimean Tartars fought on the side of the Germans and "the main mass of the population . . . did not give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew--probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian Sea.

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