Sincere hearts gusts Czechoslovak workers, enthusiastic eyes of tens of thousands of residents of Prague, loud public speech, then the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow and the hospital for many years disgrace and oblivion, accidental discovery and serious historical investigation – all came together in the history of this small car, designed the great leader.
The last holiday that country widely celebrated under Stalin, began on the occasion of the anniversary of his 70th birthday, came on December 21, 1949. However, the birthday of the Secretary of the CPSU (b), the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union IV Stalin was a holiday not only for our country, but also an event truly global scale. This is not surprising. In the postwar years, Joseph Stalin – unquestionably the most influential politician in the world: the winner of fascism, the owner of the atomic bomb, the leader of the world communist movement. Neither U.S. President Harry Truman nor British Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1949 did not have the political weight, as Joseph Stalin. Happy Anniversary congratulated him literally all over the world, and primarily, of course, the People’s Democracies: Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia
Commemorative gifts to Stalin, hundreds and thousands of craps in Moscow. December 3, 1949 “Pravda” newspaper reports the formation of a “Committee in connection with the 70th anniversary of the birth of Comrade. Stalin “and publishes a long list of members of the Committee. Opened its director Grigory Alexandrov and tractor driver Pasha Angelina and completed composer Dmitri Shostakovich and weaver Natalia Yarygin. That Committee will take for the whole month all the gifts in the name of Stalin. At first, they are placed in the museum of the Revolution on Gorky Street – current Tver. The closer the coveted day December 21, the more newspaper articles devoted to the anniversary. Writer Boris Polevoy prints in “Pravda” article on display in the museum gifts from all over the “great love for the Bolshevik party, led by Comrade Stalin hands to manufacture them. People who worked on them, invested in these gifts of his heart, the flame of your soul, your dreams and aspirations. ” Poem, “December 21, 1949″ Joseph Vissarionovich devotes poet Anna Akhmatova: On the day of new year teacher and friend
Song bright votes sing -
Let around raging blizzard
Or mountain violets bloom. And the second city of the Soviet Union
republics All friendly city
workers and those that stifle ties,
but whose free speech and whose soul proud. And their thoughts freely fly to the capital of glory,
to high Kremlin – fighter for the eternal light,
Departure at midnight hymn majestic sweeps
And the whole world sounds like help and greetings. Not far behind, and Czechoslovakia. People do without the socialist republic of poetry, but like all the fraternal peoples, sends many gifts – hand-woven carpet, huge gilded vases, figurines, weapons, a set of pipes, wine collection, functioning railway layout, etc., etc., etc.. The best samples of their products sent to Moscow all Czech companies, including the three major automobile plant country: Letov, Skoda and Tatra. As with any gift, Put each anniversary offering original and unique. Regular serial “Tatraplan” factory Tatra cut lengthwise and crosswise, making a spacious and amazingly swift convertible beige color combined with beauty of genuine leather red. Best Letov factory workers from the suburbs of Prague collected for Stalin exclusive version of the subcompact Aero Minor. Inspired by the universal impulse, the artist draws for her new grille and chrome decor, makes it more elegant bumper recreates dashboard adds guards on the rear fenders and unlike serial invents the wheel, for which, in his opinion, will certainly keep Stalin himself . Incarnation of the car in the metal masters trust the best – tinsmiths, cabinetry, obivschikam, motorists, collectors. Second so luxurious “Minor” at the factory will never collect.
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