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...blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev...
...Assassin Nicolaev himself was being carefully nursed in a Leningrad hospital, doctors hoping to prevent Death from his self-inflicted wound and the beating he received. If saved, he was expected to go, first to the Gay-pay-oo for third degree, then into a monster Soviet propaganda trial and finally before a firing squad Last week the Gay-pay-oo were reported to have shot his 85-year-old mother, his wife, his daughters and his sons?in addition to the 66 executions of pure Bolshevik Terror...
...same thing happened in the case of my uncle the Grand Duke Sergei.? The police very quickly discovered there was no local plot and only the assassin was executed. There was no imprisonment of others. The law courts of Russia in those days were extremely just and there was very little corruption...
...Look at him ! There is a paid assassin. You men are handicapped when you face men like this. When you meet such men draw quickly and shoot accurately. Look at him! He's the best-dressed man in this room, yet he's never worked a day in his life...
...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...