It is a strange trait of human nature that however strong are the forts to reduce class distinctions to common level there always remains desire to retain some form of mocracy whether it is based on civie blood" oF achievement. The new Ruslan" Communist Society aristo-ocracy must be one of the most unusual in the world for not only. does it carry a definite title "Znat of the Soviet Union—"znat" being translate ed as "notable"—but its conditions of membership are unusual.
ding workers for bravery or outstanding merit is a praiseworthy ace fon for it encourages others, but one member, Mrs. Anna Kipenko, comes under another ealexory. A Ukranian collective farm worker, she has been included beattie she had her husband discharged from his job for being drunk, The moral value this award is probably calculated to have a sobering effect on the work-ets of Russia but, but it docs put material relations on a precarious footing. marking the wife a cart of agent provocateur regarding her husband's conduct, IE his conduct was such that it offended her sense of responsibility to her task it would probably have been 9 better thing to try and reform him of the habit rather than have him discharged, In= clusion in the new "Znat™ order on those terms would have been on a much more creditable basis one would think, but still the Soviet authorities have their own ideas on conduct.
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