RUSSIA: 20 Year Success?

Russia's long awaited first election under Joseph Stalin's famed new "Most Democratic Constitution In The World" of delegates to the upper and lower houses of the new Supreme Soviet (TIME, Dec. 7, et seq.) was finally set last week for Sunday December 12.

The State reported that there are in the Union about 169,000,000 people of all ages (42,000,000 townspeople and 127,000,000 country dwellers), that about 100,000,000 adults are expected to vote, that 145,000,000 ballots have already been printed and that 15,000,000 copies of the new electoral law have been distributed. As...

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