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The Growth of the Red Army (Literary Digest, 1935)
"Premier Vyacheslav M. Molotov (1890 – 1986) pictured the Soviet Union as a lusty young giant strong enough to defend itself from both the East and the West in the keynote speech of the Seventh All Union Congress of Soviets, the Soviet Parliament.""In proof of this claim it was shown that in the last two years the Soviet Government had increased the strength of the Red Army from 562,000 men in 1932 to 940,000 in 1934."
| A Few Days With Lenin and Trotsky (Liberty, 1920)
Often published by the editors of "Liberty", "Life" and "Judge", was the American cartoonist Ellison Hoover (d. 1966) who poked some fun at the instability and blood-lusting thirst of the still-born Soviet Union in 1920.
| The Party-Approved Foreign Movie in Soviet Russia (Photoplay, 1937)
Saturday night in the proletarian's paradise: so much to do! If you wanted to take your date to a Russian movie you could go to "Battleship Potemkin", or you could take her to "Battleship Potemkin", or to "Battleship Potemkin"! On the other hand, you might choose a foreign movie that was approved by the all-knowing Soviet apparatchik, and in that case the two of you would see a Charlie Chaplin movie:"Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times', which I saw Charlie make more than a year ago in Hollywood and San Pedro,was the only American picture I ever remember having seen in Moscow. This film packed the theater and was shown twenty-four hours a day." Click here if you want to know what films Hitler liked.
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| The Soviet Press on Famine Conditions (Literary Digest, 1923)
"Indignant accusations of trickery in dealing with the grain supply, which have been launched against the Russian Soviet Government by American and European editors, who were amazed to find that Russia was exporting grain in the midst of a new famine, are not particularly noticed by the Moscow press, which however, in such journals as the Moscow 'Isvicstia' and the 'Economcheskaia Gizn' feature reports of starvation in the Volga provinces."Although there is no mention of the Soviet famine in this 1938 interview with Leon Trotsky, it is interesting nonetheless; to read it for free, you may click here.
| Starvation in the Worker's Paradise (Current Opinion, 1921)
The first Soviet famine lasted from 1919 through 1923; some historians have placed the death toll as high as five million. This is an editorial that appeared in an American magazine a year and a half after the disaster began:"The effort to keep the outside world in ignorance of the extent of the suffering in Russia has failed completely. Tchicherin, the foreign minister, was afraid that if the Western chanceries realized the extremity to which the Soviet commissars were reduced, they would at once become difficult to negotiate with. ...[Lenin] is held responsible for the policy which has brought about a consumption of so great a proportion of the seed wheat that the fields cannot be sown. For the first time since Bolsheviki gained power, says the Berlin "Lokalanzeiger", Lenin is a cipher." Although there is no mention of the Soviet famine in this 1938 interview with Leon Trotsky, it is interesting nonetheless; to read it for free, you may click here. *Sad Film Footage from the First Soviet Famine*
| Andrei Gromyko (Collier's Magazine, 1946)
By the time this 1946 profile of Andrei Gromyko (1909 – 1989) appeared on the newsstands, he was already a mainstay in the State Department Rolodex. Anyone who came of age during the Cold War (1947 - 1991) will certainly recognize his name, because he was the Foreign Minister for the Soviet Union for twenty-eight years, and he was one of the architects of the Cold War.
The attached article outlines Gromyko's career highlights up to the Summer of 1946 when he was posted as the first Soviet Ambassador to the newly established United Nations.
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