Pravda Scream

Misleading to many is the Moscow Government's "zigzag policy" which Stalin & Co. apply to nearly everything. Zig they go as far to the left as they dare; then zag to the right, biding their time; then zig again further to the left! Last week Moscow's famed Pravda, often the mouthpiece of Josef Stalin, zigged furiously at the kulaks (rich peasants).

Screamed Pravda: "The kulaks are still the chief danger threatening our Government's plans!"

Promptly all Moscow seethed over this CHIEF DANGER and outsiders were mildly amazed--for did not Josef Stalin demand two years ago "the liquidation of the kulak?" Did not rivers of blood flow? And was not the kulak liquidated?

Stalin was only zigging in January 1930. He zagged three months later and turned off the blood faucets, which was not such Big News as turning them on. Last week Pravda announced that the State has obtained this year only half as much grain from the kulaks as the State planned to obtain. In Russia, where the State's every plan is sacred, such "unfulfillment" is a scandal.

Paramount fact: more than two thirds of the whole sown area of the Soviet Union is not only not in the hands of kulak households, but it is not even in the hands of poor peasant households. This vast and vital two thirds now consists of: 1) State farms or 2) collective farms worked cooperatively by groups of peasants under State supervision.

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