Die Neue Zeit
2nd August 2010, 17:45
http://books.google.ca/books?id=PTIVuGtAm5sC
What, he asked rhetorically, would the voters write on their ballots? Many people (he answered himself) wished to write on their ballots "Long life and happiness to Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin!", "I am voting for peace!", or some other appropriate sentiment. Or again, it might be that a voter did not like the candidate and wished to strike out his name. In that case, he could do so. He might wish to add a few words explaining his objection to the candidate, perhaps he might feel that someone else would be a better deputy. In that case, he could write in another name.
I read somewhere that, especially during the Brezhnev era, there was also the odd case of pro-CPSU voters handwriting petitions on their ballots for local or regional socioeconomic projects, something which today's bourgeois states don't allow.
us get your pork for you!"]
I can't remember the source, so any help on sources would be appreciated.
What, he asked rhetorically, would the voters write on their ballots? Many people (he answered himself) wished to write on their ballots "Long life and happiness to Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin!", "I am voting for peace!", or some other appropriate sentiment. Or again, it might be that a voter did not like the candidate and wished to strike out his name. In that case, he could do so. He might wish to add a few words explaining his objection to the candidate, perhaps he might feel that someone else would be a better deputy. In that case, he could write in another name.
I read somewhere that, especially during the Brezhnev era, there was also the odd case of pro-CPSU voters handwriting petitions on their ballots for local or regional socioeconomic projects, something which today's bourgeois states don't allow.
us get your pork for you!"]
I can't remember the source, so any help on sources would be appreciated.