RUSSIA: Complaint Week

Disgruntled Russians complain to the Workers' & Peasants' Inspection, a nationwide organization through which Josef Stalin keeps his finger on Russia's 148,000,000 pulses. Last week the Complaint Bureau of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection announced that April 9-14 will be "Complaint Week," urged all citizens to complain, particularly of any negligence on the part of local officials of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection itself. During Complaint Week, declared the announcement, a "mass complaint meeting" will be held at every factory and on every collective farm in Russia.

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