Word: bolsheviks
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...humbly born President of the U.S., a midwestern Missourian, was top man at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, the descendant of Marlborough, and Joseph Stalin, the Bolshevik dictator, made Harry Truman the chairman of their formal meetings. One evening he gave a state dinner for the other two, and afterwards he sat at a piano and played a minuet in G for them. One German, and one only, was in the room: Ludwig van Beethoven, who hated Prussianism and wrote the music...
...counterpart in Moscow. Where two years ago there was relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...
...pair were like snakes within a narrowing circle of fatal fire. From Hamburg Doenitz broadcast his only policy: "It is my first task to save the German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.... As long as the British and Americans hamper us from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk...
...left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
Lenin's Problem. It was barely 26 years since Lenin faced the knotty question : would it be necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...