Until an illiterate Russian coal miner named Alexei Stakhanov developed the "speedup" technique which made him dear to Five-Year Plan officials and brought orders from Joseph Stalin that workers throughout Russia must increase their output (TIME, Dec. 16), the most favored Soviet class was the Young Communists for whom nothing in Russia was supposed to be too good.
By last week Stalin's pampering of Stakhanovites, who are not necessarily Communists, had roused the Young Communists to scoffing gibes at "stuck-up Stakhanovites" and disclosures of the pampering they enjoy. According to the Young...
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