"Stalin is anything but remote or autocratic in method." --@nytimes 10/11/31
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"There is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be." --
@nytimes 11/24/32 The#holodomor genocide of 1932-3 killed millions.7 replies 137 retweets 432 likesShow this thread -
"It is a mistake to exaggerate the gravity of the situation. The Russians have tightened their belts before to a far greater extent than is likely to be needed this winter."
@nytimes 11/25/32 "Tightened their belts" is an interesting turn of phrase in this context.4 replies 30 retweets 229 likesShow this thread -
"The Soviet press has made no secret of the food shortage and its effects. There is no need of a foreign observer to tour the villages, where it commonly happens that the disgruntled or disaffected elements talk loudest while others are busy working."
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"the food shortage is insignificant as compared with conditions in 1920."
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"The public is taught to know and recognize all three 'class enemies' and to welcome action against them."
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"The [Soviet] press concentrates public opinion upon defects and ways to improve them, upon enemies and ways to defeat them, but it rigidly excludes the implication that there is anything wrong with the system itself." --
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"They are simply trying to introduce a new form of farming which they believe to be better and more efficient, not only for the peasants but for the nation as a whole." --
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"The outer world is beginning to talk about a new Red terror in Russia, but [...] neither the Bolsheviki themselves nor leading sections of the Russian people consider it anything but 'repressive measures' against class enemies and opponents of the socialization program." 3/1/33
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