So potent are the merest words of Josef Stalin that his recently published criticism of a magazine article by Red Professor A. G. Slutzky was rumored all over Moscow last week to have driven Professor Slutzky to commit suicide.
The Associated Press promptly announced that Professor Slutzky had not committed suicide. But he has been ousted from the Communist Party, has lost his professorship and is a social out-cast in Soviet Russiadespite the fact that Slutzky wrote an immediate, abject apology and complete retraction of his article to Stalin, the Man of Steel.
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