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Show Duration of Soviet Rule Easily Proved t "Comrade" Kalinin is president of the soviet union. lie is a peasant by origin. Like till good presidents linin makes a spoocli occasionally. He makes a specialty of addressing peasant audiences. Not long ago he made a speech at a farmers' reunion not so far from Nigirix. The president presi-dent was drawing a grandiloquent picture pic-ture of life under the soviet regime. At the outset lie told bis peasant-listeners peasant-listeners that Kussia was the first country to throw off the yoke. Suddenly Sud-denly lie w:is Interrupted. Interruptions Interrup-tions nre not infrequent in peasant districts. "We have land and freedom," free-dom," cried one farmer, "but under the czar some of us bad three pairs of pants and now we have only onr-." "Comrades." replied the comrade-president, comrade-president, "the negoos of Africa have no pants at all." "How is that?" came back the voice from the audience. audi-ence. "You told is we were the first to be sovietir.ed. but If those people in Africa Imve no pants at all. they must have bed soviet rule for at least 20 years." ricrro Van Tassen, in the Atlanta Constitution. |