Zealous in following Joseph Stalin's clear directives, Bolshevik henchmen expect as part of the system to be publicly blamed by the Dictator for his occasional mistakes, then zealously follow his "new directives." Last week in the tall-towered Kremlin the 1935 spring directives for collective farms were taken on the chin by Comrade Yakov Yakovlev, the Party's Director of Agriculture.
The Dictator's words of blame as related by Comrade Yakovlev himself after he left the Kremlin: "The policy of squeezing the peasants* will not do. It is wrong. If you want to succeed, under...
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