The red scribe who penned this article had no idea that the clock was ticking when it came to the USSR (it collapsed some twenty-three years later) and that the name Soviet Union would soon serve as the answer for assorted parlor games such as Trivial Pursuit. Nonetheless, the writer’s misplaced pride came bubbling forth in this column that celebrated their 50th year in existence:
“Never before did civilization see the mass enthusiasm with which the free people of the Soviet Union had overcome [their] difficulties. No other country or nation throughout the history of mankind had made such spectacular achievements as those made by Soviet people in socialist construction – in the construction of a new life and new society.”
