The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-11-05
Gay Railroad Tracks, Work in
Factories, Pour Concrete,
Run Institutions
WOMEN IN RUSSIAN SOVIET :. "a
Editors Note: This is the Sec
bnd Of q series of stories dealing
with Soviet Russia.
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
Staff Writer for NEA Service

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Copyright, 1881, NEA Service. 1nc.)
If you were a woman living IN Rus
STA
You would have equal rights with
men-whether you wanted them or
not. -.
You would be expected to work and
support yourself and be OF as much
ura in building the new Soviet State
as any a There is absolutely no
sex discrimination. You could enter
any profession and rise to a position
of authority, if you made good.
You would find no barriers OF pref
udices against your doing the heaviest
or the most disagreeable kind OF man
ual labor.
You could be a cement mixer, brick
layer, lumberjack, street cleaner, man
aeer of a collective farm, furnace
stoker, tractor operator, butcher or
head of the governments most I'M
portant electrical plant.
Russian women have always been
used to heavy work. Now it is as II
the government has modified Tor the
Five-Year Plan and sent them lnto
every field.
In the Youth Day parade saw two
women sailors, obviously regular
rgobs" marching with men sailors.
Russia has two women generals III
Che Red army.
Two-thirds of all the medical STU
dents in Russia are women.
Women lawyers are legion, women
architects work side by side with men
on all the new buildings.
Travelling in the south OF RUSSIA
bne night we got off while the tram
refueled. A woman engineer stepped
mt of the locomotives cab. A woman
dressed in clumsy felt boots and mans
coat. big hose in hand, climbed up and
refilled the water tanks.
The next day we saw women laying
q railroad track.
X X X
The huge Park of Culture and
Rest in Moscow Is run by a young
attractive Russian girl, Betty Clan.
Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, is the
tireless foe of i%lliteracy. Through her
efforts Russia is organized with the
slogan. 1--WE will teach everybody to
read and write by 1881"
No woman holds a position of SUI
preme Importance in the Communist
party for no woman belongs to the
Supreme Economic Council. But many
q local Soviet has a woman head.
You hear heroic tales Of the Older
Communist women.
Maria, a Communist for II years
marched in the Red Army as a prop
agandist when the revolution was first
won. Her father "a an artisan, she
had little education. She heard the
governments call for engineers. De.
spite bad lungs she entered the Lenin-
grad university to study engineering
She is now on a construction job fal
away in the oil fields.
Each individual in Russia, man o.
woman, stands on his own merits as
person. Wives Of prominent Commun
lists get no reflected glory.
X 4 X
A recent book on Stain described
him as an Oriental who kept hi!
beautiful young wife In the virtua
confines of a harem.
I asked the press department for al
interview with her. The under-secre'
tary looked pcrplexed.
Mrs stalin?" he queried. "Why al
Interview with Mrs. Stalin?"
I explained inordinate interes
in all our Mrs. Hoovers, our Mrs
Coolidges.
But Mrs. Stain is a private citi
Een," he answered. 1.-THE government
can make no appointments for privat
citizens. Why don't you just phon,
her II you want to see her. There
q phone in her name"
I did. She was in the Crimea witt
him on vacation. But I found tina
Nadya Aluluieva, which Is her nam,
leaves the Kremlin every morning
takes the crowded street car just lik
any other Moscow woman, and goes t
an institute where she is studying t
be a chemical engineer, to work i
the factories that manufacture arti
ticial silk.
Stains wife was born in 1902, hs
been married to Stain II years, ha
one girl and one boy by him, and
herself only six years younger tina
Xaskov, Stains son by his first wife,
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There are no "weak women" !
Russia. seemingly. When anyone al
rived or left our apartment, whic
was on the fourth floor-walk up
. SIDE CHANGES .