Aloof as the College of Cardinals is the Caspian where Russia's future is charted in an endless series of successive Five Year Plans by a group of clannish Bolsheviks who form a sort of plan priesthood. Last week they were ready to advise Dictator Joseph Stalin what to do about overcrowded, stinking, sprawling Moscow. As usual their advice was super-drastic.
The Dictator was invited by his plan priesthood to choose between three alternatives: 1) Abandon the metropolis altogether, establishing Russia's capital elsewhere and enshrining the more picturesque parts of Moscow as a...
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