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ABOUT "SPEED"
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"Speed" in a film means
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Among the features of Russian fo which are sometimes reforred to ne difficulties of growth, or "growing pain," the prevalence of so-called "vreditelstvo," or sabo- tage, in certainly one of the most striking. Since the spectacular trial of the accused lenders of the "Industrial Party" in Moscow at least a score of such cases,
difforing sometimes widely
in character, but all covered by the comprehensive term "vrediteltvo." and all indicating an unsatisfac- tory_functioning of some cog in the Soviet economic machine, havo been reported from various parts of the country.
So two employees of the Ridder co-operative in Kazakstan were sentenced to death and fourteen to various terms of imprisonment for "breaking up the supply of the workers. Eighty-five employees of the Moscow co-operative atores were arrested on charges of specu- lating with food products ander their charge, and two of these were sentenced to he shot, while many of the othera received prison sen- tencen. An Ukrainian station- master. Kelomietz, was sentenced to death for "counter-revolutionary: sabotage," because he let through A passenger train on the wrong
track, with the result that a dians trous collision occurred. A brid day's work on the south-cantern railroads was described in the fol- lowing terms in a despatch from Voronezh --
The work of the clans onemy in transportation reached auch point that on one day occurred four wrecks, a hundred and three
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g to determine when, how, and if a genuine act of sabotage has A quite innocent It is obviously difficult to estab- been ommitted. lish what measure of truth there man, especially if he had the may be in this flood of charges, wrong kind of class antecedenta, pouring in from all sections of the might be exposed to gravely unjust country. It is, however, evident he had no control made his work suspicions if "causes over which that the original meaning of
turn out badly. "vroditelstvo"-namely,
doli-
If sabotage in general is an onay
goods vans were smashed and fiveberate effort to wreck from within charge to raise, "ideological sabo- valuable engines were put out of some State economic enterprise- tage" is the easiest and vaguest
has been considerably broadened, of all accusations. Such a case, so that it may cover almost any was reported from an institute in manifestation of shoer Incompe- tence or bureaucracy. In some of Kazan, where a Professor Tushnoy In Cheliabinsk incksmith the cases which were cited there was accused of having said that every student abroad has his own named KanaCY accused of was not even any effort to prove microscope and other equipmont, plotting to blow up a local leather that the persons accused were a situation which does not exist In factory and in Bisk. in Siberia.animated by any clearly conceived the Soviet Union, and that "some two managers of a dairy were dub-design or undermining the political who come to
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can't even bed subolgura and sentenced to foundations of the Soviet State.
handle an all-stove.' The Kazan five and two years of imprisonment for letting two hundred tons of A Professor's Complaint.
proletarian students raised the cry hutter
"ideological sabotage," and "Izves spoil. A gloomy reporti from the Votkinsk factory, in the
Sabotage is an elusive offence, tia" characterised Tushnov's state- Ural region, begins with the state- because it in casy to auspect, but ment as "direct solidarity with ment that the plant is suffocating difficult to prove. In the Shachti those who, in the name of saving case, where some of the defendants capitalism and its 'culture,' strive professed innocence, the court to destroy. the sole proletarian was obliged to listen to compli-state in the world."
All in all sabotage, real and aug. cated technical arguments about best effect on a given seam of coal. cal," may be considered one of the what machines would produce the pected, Industrial and "ideologi-i Obylously one
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The factory from month to month can't fl out ita pro- gramme, and continues to groan from loafers and saboteura. Stop pages, accidents, breakages, and
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