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18 أكتوبر 2014

Ogonek 1982

Document: Ogonyok No.19,6th May 1928 page 5
Translation
One and a half months ago I gave up smoking and I promise to smoke no more
N.I. Bukharin, 18 April 1928, Moscow.
THE COVER of this edition of Ogonek depicts a well-groomed woman conversing with a peasant.  It deals with one of the daunting problems facing the country in the 1920s and 30s.  Underneath is a message from N. Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow

 Every literate person, teach an illiterate one!”  If you can’t teach one yourself, if you don’t have time – then take charge of an illiterate and pay the cost of his lessons so he can have an alphabet book, paper, pencils, so his education can be followed all the way through.  We need every communist, komsomol and pioneer to be able to say, ‘Petr Petrovich Petrov was illiterate, I took charge of him and now he is literate, his address is such-and-such.  You can check the facts’.  That’s what every Party member, komsomol, every literate member of the ODN*, every literate trade-unionist, every literate Red Army soldier should do.”

*Oбщество «Долой неграмотность» The Down with Illiteracy Society, a USSR voluntary organisation that from 1923 to 1936 taught over 5 million people, mostly 
peasants, to read and write

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