RUSSIA: Hooligan Flyers

Standing before the graduating class of the Soviet Military Academy in the Kremlin fortnight ago, Dictator Stalin cried:

"The art of valuing machinery and reporting about our technique has been learned, but I fail to hear a single case of reports being made with similar eagerness as to how many people we have trained in a given period, and how they have been helped to grow and become experienced in their work. It is time to understand that the most valuable of all capital is the people. If we have enough trained men in our factories, farms and army, our country...

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