Korean Korenizatsiia and Its Socialist Construction 61but Rus sians as well. Several of the Koreans and Rus sians worked in Soviet
institutions and were CP members. Among those caught were a CP bureau-
crat named Sorokin at Dalkrai Marine Trust and Kim Sun Man, a bureaucrat
at OKAGO. The cost of bed and morphine was 50 rubles per night.^45
In 1930, the official Soviet line was still that the “greatest danger” to
internationalism and class consciousness was “ Great Power (Rus sian) chau-
vinism.” Lan Tin Khoi was a member of the Khabarovsk City Council. On
April 22, 1930, he was in Vladivostok riding in a streetcar when two factory
workers (one Asian, one Rus sian) approached to enter it. A female police
officer allowed the Rus sian to get on but told the Asian worker to step back
and off the car. The Rus sian man asked, “Why do you let Rus sians in and
not the Chinese?” The policewoman answered, “ Because he is Chinese.”
Lan Tin Khoi, a city councilman, then intervened and began to argue with
the officer. He asked her for her surname and was refused it. The police-
woman exited the streetcar at Komkhoza Street. Both the councilman and
the Chinese worker, Fyn Ze Chen, followed her to the police station. As they
entered the station, the officer told the station director that the two Chinese
had insulted her, and the police chief arrested both Lan Tin Khoi and Fyn
Ze Chen. The councilman, Lan, called the city police administration (named
the “Second Department”) and spoke with one of the police chiefs, who
Figure 2. Cartoon of Chinese NEPmen (petty traders and merchants) in the RFE circa
1923/1924. (Left) Chinese NEPmen were seen as charging exorbitant prices; (right) Chi-
nese NEPmen were depicted as “sitting” on Rus sians with the only store in the village. Il-
lustrations courtesy of Krasnoe znamia, issues from 1923 (l.) and 1924 (r.).