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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1950.

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TALIN'S present five-year plan alma at increasing the wages of in- dustrial and clerical workers to 600 roubles a month. It is difficult to translate 600 roubles into £8, although as a rough guide it is about £38. Here is what it would mean in a man's budget.

FOOD. To buy the same amount of food to which he was entitled before, rationing ended in 1947 a man would have to spend 255 roubles.

1950

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I am making this assessment because I believe it, immensely important to understand more accurately the daily life of the Soviet pooplein, relation to the regime that rulos them

(twenty

roubles are usually demanded by a tenant giving up space-the total wages of months of work.

years apart) typifies the vital change in Soviet society: Stalin pins

THE

his regime to a new class

PRIVILIGENTSIA

T

HEY were showing me over an experimental farm in the thick of the Brazilian jungle when I heard an old familiar tune. "Song of de plains favourite song of our glorious Red Army," the little interpreter lund called

* Somehow they symbolised the writers and scientists, I had enigma of this. vast dinner with a group of them at irango Soviet people who, in the war their club, and got them to tell against Itfer, at the same me about themselves. time-

nddition to salertes running into keveral tens of thousands of Gávo 1

more lives and ched roubles a month they Are more of their own blood in showered, with special grants defence of their country than and prizes. I they hnd not any other nation,

been given a car of their, own they would be allowed the use

Sometimes they 'ore exempted from lincome tax.

My RABOTNIK friends had of houses and flats of their own This dualism in the soul the Soviet people is at the and usually a summer cottage in bottom of all Stalin's internat the country as well, while the polley during the five years NABOTCHI live two families to a

ince the war and much of his room, three or four families to foreign policy as well.

As a rule four or moro families share it when we asked him what 2 Provided three times more of one with chauffeur thrown

this molody was that the band played to us night The stairways of apartment houses after night in the marble- pillared dining hall of are the responsibility of the official house

Moscow's Moskwa Hotel. administration. They are usually in a

I had heard the tune state of slumliko neglect.

Lifts work only in houses where im- often enough since then. portant officials live. Cooking is done The steel workers' glee club

had sung it in that munity concert at Stalin- grad. The German band had WORK. Soviet industrial and clerical played it at the Intourist Soviet occupied workers work six eight-hour days a Hotel in week. Hat

They have a fortnight's holiday Leipzig.

And here it was HOW a year with pay.

a kitchen, lavatory, or bathroom, which ull help to keep clean.

If he has a wife and child to feed as well his food bill would be 600 roubles a month. This is mure than he can afford. and that is why the wives of all "common workers" 19 against Trilby workers-has to go out to earn a living.

At standard rates of pay for adult workers, a man would have to work for n 1b. loaf of wheat bread the following number of minutes in:-

Reltain America France Italy Sweden U.S.S.I.

7

12 10

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39

are the staple

Bread and cabbage foods of the Soviet worker.

•

CLOTHES. A suit off the peg in one of the big stores costs 1,500 roubles- three months' wages, A pair of ordinary

weelts' shoes costs two

wages ~ 250 roubles.

1 RENTS are low. They are paid to the

State housing authority. But a premium goes to tenants having floor to give up. Several thousand

space

World's

in small kerosene stoves.

·

com.

of

con-

If they are 20 minutes late or leave floating out to me over the their job 20 minutes

jungle air early they are hot, humil punished as absentees. The punishment Central Brazil from n

someone was play is up to six months' corrective labour at certina the place of employment, and a fine of ing in one of the farm

dwellings. a quarter of the worker's earnings.

Playing with melancholy and nostalgia.

As we carne up the concer- tina slapped abruptly.

• PENSIONS. Men are entitled to the old age pension at the age of 60 if they have worked for 25 years; women if they are 55 and have worked for 20

years,

the

The maximum old age pension is 240 roubles a month. Most old age pensioners either beg, starve, or go on working till they die.

They cannot live on pension.

There is no unemployment insurance, because theoretically there is no such thing as unemployment in the Soviet Union.

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Twenty-six strong. contest for all cligible boys and girls under the age of 16 and years old Ted Evans of Sur- who hold a stub of a ticket to this picture. Prixes include rey, England. has shot up a Radio (with alarm clock), a pair of Parker 51' and to 9 ft. 316 in.-barely six phonograph records of "Cinderella" as well as Complimen- inches short of the Biblical tary tickets, cte. Contests must be entered before October Goliath-and he can scarce- 19 and results will be announced on October 26th.

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Cotter, who enjoyed every indh Ti hetght. Bark in 1806 he ared City watchmen by light og his pipe at street humps, Sumutimes he reached up tu Even the Army gave him up kis pretty girls who leaned out the too big a job. He went in of upper windows as he pus

to boxing and people laughed, ed. Height brought him pros Bu soon as he entered the Fin perity, and he drove is his own Piano-playing!

proved fiddling, carriage with a box sunk in for he can stretch two octaves the bottom to receive his legs

In hospital li with one hand.

on three beds placed thwise. In hotels

tels. he curis up on the floor of a DOUBLE room rather than make a fuss.

Ted

dislikes travelling

catches the trobdingnagian His hen

le and feet.

His

hunger

was suitably (from Brob-

Robert

Walton,

who

#ess.

quislings and collaborators in. than all the rest of occupied Europe combined.

by SEFTON DELMER

#kitchen,

A

Most pompiered of all are the members of Stalin's secret polica, former Instructor of the M. V. D. who recently escaped has revealed that they are given new houses constructed on the most modern lints; luxury ac- commodation ut holiday resorts; their own restaurants and stores.

They also enjoy private per-

It has led him to take such forces by the best talent of mediate tactical measures as the State theatre and ballet, and special to SHOOT or isolate in forced their children attend labour Cump

returned model schools reserved for them alf prisoners of war and all civilians exclusively. who worked for the Germans, regardless of whether they were forced to or not;

Their rights

SET UP special re-education these

EVEN

more important than fierce differentiation

privileges of the RABOTNIK and the RABOTCII is the new policy which It causing the

1 looked at the player. There was no mistaking her Russian-

Or even her Sovielish- centres through which all sol- bolween the earnings and the

diers who have formed part of Two wide-apart blue

cyca the Soviet occupation garrisons were gazing at me frem beneath in Europe must pass.

mooth peasant forehead with a wreath of earlanded wheat-blond ploits in typical Soviet style.

a

Contrast...

SHE contemplated m

in

RABOTNIK 10

an

becoine protected by

Most important of all, it has

chsle ho de exclusive confirmed Stalin

and economic barriers termination to jettison the last social vestiges of Lenin's doctrine of from his "common worker" in-. equal shares for everybody and feriors. to

large Two measures are responsible. create instend

privileged class with a strong A Soviet Russian have had with Interest in the continued

restored to them the right that mixture of disdainful axistence of the regime.

to leave money and property to almost hostile superiority.

their descendants abolished with struggling

friendly For the

dictatorship of the under the earliest reforms of he ha substituted the Socialist revolution. curiosity, which I have noticed proletariat so often in the young Soviet- the dictatorshly of a caste drawn means that the "priviligentsta" Russians of today when they from the proletariat.

a foreigner,

I

but

Blanced in at primitive

comfortable-looking!

la-

bourer's cottage which was her home now. In my mind's eyn

Two words

NONE

This

at

can now accumulate family for- tunes In the form of non- producing properly-jewels, old masters, furniture, and so forth. are once now is the day when B Soviet parents

more being made to pay for I contrasted it with the tumble- everyone in Soviet Russia, down slums I had geen in the whether manager of a socialised the education of their children

first tour years Sovlet cities where people concern, party secretary, or chief after the counted themselves fortunate of protocol at the Foreign Office, school.

to look and

Scholarships are granted on if they had the official ration of felt it advisable

basis and as a ave square yards of floor space dress as much like a muselo a competitive

This темля wore per person.

working proletarlan as possible. political award.

that only the most exceptional When I was in Moscow in RABOTCH children have a their 1039 it was still the fashion for chance of continuing party officials and their

after the four schooling colleagues in the Ministries to elementary years. he stopped growing. Alas, 71 id, "it was much better in

Their crowded homes do not wer large workmen's caps like tekhibkov. We had three roɑm"

those that Leuin and Stalln hat give them the opportunity to worn in the days of the struggle. Work for scholarships. And in Today find them wearing a ony case Uxeir parents cannot Moscow version of the trilly afford to keep them. So most

of the RABOTCHI children have to find a job at the age of twelve.

al-

10 collars and slept in af "Well," said I, "I suppose this pecially made bed, waY

is a lot better than where you weys promised a dream honor | lived in Rumi?" Ber patriotkan

in bis proportions--when Fuilt to

"No." sho Was roused at once, fogt brace which he wore help support his weight of 35 stone chisted his ankle, causing fatal infection, and he died. unmarried, at 22.

7

tallest

with kitchen and bath."

"AI to yourselves?" She hesitated for a moment. Then loyalty to her home country-or but. was t

snobbery? triumphed, "Yes," she said, "all to cur- True enough the Soviet Union

worked in selves - we

the continues to call itself a federa- Finance Administration."

tion of workers' republics. "You are sorry, then, that you left?" I said, "You

would

Amang the world's women, 8 . d in. Brunhilde Van Druysen says that she has had several offers of marriage But never found a man able to keep ber. One of New York's tallest amazons, Lola de Feb. rather be back in Russia?" fell in love with a 3 ft. 6 in.

"Russia now?" she said, midget-and married him.

"Never, I would rather die.". Later, they were divorced, her hushand elaiming that she Candled him ilke a doll.

America's tallest aldeshow Jack Gin, 8 1. exponent,

and likes pecially made remind sideshow crowds:

to

The enigma

HER husband had joined us

today Russian has

Maybe...

But with that clustle capacity for inflection and differentiation AM wondering whether Stalin Ja not falling a victim to the which distinguishes it as a fallacies of his own Socialist language,

doctrine of. clars warfare in. develoned two words to translate building up this stock of pro the simple English word worker! fessional classes as the vested Quite a gulf between them, interest guardian of his regime.

The bosses

to

WORD

buses. luggage rack when he sits in a dingnag the fabulous region of Earl, has to have even his ties Brazil," he said, "because here Irain. During, clothes-rationing Bonts in "Gulliver's Travels").

steaks double Four

at silling.

1 days, he was allowed

He

his Twenty outgrowed

three CRKS,

large coupons.

and clothes at six inches a year. loaves

sometimes

three quarts of may be tall but at least I'm

He still gets double food ra- milk for breakfast

left him unsatisfed. bons and needs them,

Then there was 8 ft. 10 . Robert Walton of Alton, Illi-

man,

shart-sighted!"

For the urge to liberate and liberalise and bring down the tyrant throughout history har la come not from

the poor but It stands from the well-to-do, "RABOTNIK."

in the trilby. It is no accident to my mind

most of the {wo to that

number

number

une

that

men

Now, "WC have comD

Talone we feel we are really away from all. Europe is finished. Stalin is so strong he will take for the worker

and Word Europe-like that." He

made sudden pounce with his hand "RABOTCH," rather sneer women who have escaped from

meaning "common Soviet Russia since the war are... and caught a fy. I felt that he ing word

like ray Ukrainian refugees in was secretly proud of Stalin working man."

the jungle of Brazil-members and the strength of the Soviet

It is on the RABOTNIK of the RABOTNIK "privili- Union.

"priviligentala" that Stalin has

Gentsia," decided to anchor the regime.

To me theso Soviet emigres were fascinating.

ois, who died in 1940 ranking It could happen to anyone.

tallest America's

the Hypertrophy of

pitultary In fact, Ted is outgrowing as

growth. boosts of history.

Even Weighing only 1 1 at birth, gland speeds the giants

But maybo Stalin has thought, There are about 12,000,000 of of that one too, And, that this Barnum had to be content with he weighed 30 ib, by the time cars to oversize and diminishes

Even here in the jungle they them, and is they who run is why be harries" this class in matching midget Tom Thumb he was six months old....and sensations of touch, pain

went into long pants al the temperature in the feet. Thus against a

the State machine, the State in particular with constant purges. merc seven-footer. Ripley reported on it. 3; reached 6 ft. 1 inch.

age of six. At nine, he had most giants have foot trouble.played the Red Army song, re-

collectivised

and heresy hunts, Pituitary failure may

causejected foreign criticism of Soviet dustry, and the

agriculture. Jan van Albert whose bults

believed in nceded 8 yards of cloth, ant! He used to help his normal- lf-consciousness but, luckily, living conditions,

Even the humblest of diese TOMORROW : the Royal College of Surgeons sized mother around the house doesn't spoll a giant's sense the invincibility of Stalin,

overseers and Inspectors corns in London preserved until the by washing upper windows and of humour.

But they had fled the country ni least twice as much as the blitz!the 8 ft. 4 in. zkeleton dusting

10 inch Robert Eight foot of the

when opportunity cffered, had highest-paid RABOTCHI under. Irish giant, Charles Evans, similarly, always ds- Walion used to grin whenever

No sided with Stalin's enemies, and him. clgarette. tempers the ceilings at home, he refused A Byrne.

Much higher still are the earn. ho hut finds his height awkward, thanks,'

would say. Hitherto the tallest town

"It had fought hard and successfully

inda of the team against repatriation. Britain was U xt. 7 in. Patrick for he has to stoop!

might stunt my growth"

NANCY

light fittings. Ted

Hair! Hair!

I'LL PUT IT

IN THE GARAGE

FOR HER

AUNT FRITZI LEFT THE MOP ON THE WINDOW

OUCH

By Ernie Bushmiller

HEY-- I'M DRYING MY HAIR IN THE SUN

of tame

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