RUSSIA: Father & Sons

All Russia heard last week about the "good children," Pavel 13 and Fedor 9, tender martyrs to the Communist cause. Soviet moppets are taught from kindergarten up that good children spy upon their parents, grandparents and older people generally. Such people, the State fears, may be anti-Communistic (i. e. old-fashioned).

Pavel and his little brother Fedor were the sons of Trophim Morosov, easy-going chairman of a remote village Soviet in Sverdlovsk Province in the Ural Mountains. So far as Moscow knew, Comrade Morosov was busy organizing collective farms, but Pavel and Fedor knew differently. When a State grain collector came...

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