Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with...
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