The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-14

aNA3aAa aeL M MAaAAa Eas HNAAA" AaA-A ecFved as an admiral in Catherine tee Greats flces Ruxskys are atfl4cted with stlif Income iaxes iuts fkke capsfa1sts One popular fmilaey is based on the bunk that al Sovxy workers rate equal pay. Actually. they are pad in accord ence With how much they produce. u . worker produces nlonc. he re- ceivax q higher salary Russian Ranettes are dreary. They are glut- ted With government decrees and grim editorials.
 The mos; popular delscacy hawked on Mosc0ws streets is ye olde fash soned Eskino Pc Geoiogi- caiiy much of RuSsias vast terri tcry is unexpiored. stored beneath Siberia are more valuable natural resources than in all Europe. Ra- dium can be found in the ural Mountains not in ounces-but in poundsl The USSR Is about the sire of North America Cliriously enough, the Soviet has banshed from it's libraries much Of the liter afure penned by Karl Marx.
 The USSR is our nearest overseas neighbor No nation is more Bolyglot than Russia. Its popula- ton comprises many different peo- ples speaking I25 different lan- auages The Kremlin was once the home of the Tsars. Behind it's closely-guarded walls are cathe- drals. paleces, armorles and ancient dungeons Nearly half of the workers in Russia are women.
 Russian factories challenge each other to production races. Dailies publish each days result. The govl ernment losses & party for the win ming factory Tones are pub ijshed at an unbelievable rate in Commyland-700 million per annum What fascinates Russians most about American mags is adverts picturing goods for sale which are iInabotainable in the Soviet.
 St. BaSil's Cathedral in Moscow is one of the StrangeSt-looking churches in the world. It has nine onion-shaped domeS of different colors and designs. In front of 1t still stands the white circular stone platform where the Tsar's enemies were beheaded The area around Lake Karakul is believed to be the first home of the human race. The Garden of Eden is said xo have been located somewhere near the Russian lake The oountry's climate varies from arctic to sub-tropical. There are polar bears on the northern shores ana tigers in the southern thickets.
 The blah-blah that we can't oo husiness with Russia is strictly hooey. Americas greatest corpora- tions have been doing business witn the Soviet for years. FTlxampie' Ford and General Electric -. Rau- road cars are equipped with stoves for boiling aqua, used to concoct gallons of tea without which no journey is complete Even wniie fighting was going on in Stalingrads o,Itskirts. the industrious citizens there began rebuilding their shat tered city.
 Stalin has a sensayuma. He once uaused during a broadcast to Sip water and apologized by saying he had devoured too much herring +hat morning. It convulsed the Russkys Several years ago divorce could be obtained m the USSR merely by mailing a postcaro notifying the spouse the match was at an end. But divorce laws nave been frightened since. Today It practically ruins Party members career if he is divorced.
 Why tension exists between Soviet and China's Chiang Kni-shek: Russian brains, money and arms helped Chiang gain power in emma. Soon after he reached his potent position, Chiang set up an anti- Commy regime and started his long and bitter campaign against the Chinese Reds. Chiang's about-face was a severe setback to the career of the Communist Intl Chairman. He was denounced for his fallure m China At that time Q9ND the chairman was 8 little known Rus sian politico His name? Joe Stalini
 The first great Russian state was established by the Vikings in the 9th Century The Russian word for council is soviet Anglo American intervention against the present Soviet government (a1ter the first World War) helps breed stspicion today. However. the Rus siarls are trying to forget 1t. In hook published by the government called "The Army Of the Sovlee Union'' the Anglo-American role III the intervention is not mentioned
 Correspondent Edgar Shows ex- eellent tome. People on Our Side" (Random House), fractures an H. fusion some Americans have about RIissia. They believe Moscow IS always looking for ways in wnicn to feed us communist propaganda. Hlit the Russians save their indoc- frination efforts for their own peo- T3fe. The complaint of the foreign correspondents is just the opposite; that they seldom get the co-opera- ton needed in order to dramatize the Russian story. No government is SO economical with explanations of It's motives or methods, and none | makes such poor effort to give the press access to its official per- sonalities.
 The famed Dnieper River Dam was built with the advice of Ameri- can engineers under the direction If U. s. Army Col. Hugh Cooper: when the Na1 offensive threatened the dam, the huge power station was dismantled and shipped east Of the Urals. Then the Soviets blew up the centers of the dam so that 1t would be of no use to the enemy. .~A