RUSSIA: 16,000 Years in Chains

The so-called Bomb Boys & Girls of Bolshevism, terroristic heroes of Russia's Revolution, include not only active Bolsheviks like Josef Stalin but a host of passive old men & old women, safely pensioned on the onetime estate of Prince Sheremetiev, 40 miles from Moscow. Last week some of the pensionaries grumbled as old people will, remarked that even now only 40% of their number are Communists.

"Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for — Freedom, Equality. Happiness...

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