Word: bolsheviks
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Once the Revolution burst, the new Government promptly seized $20,000,000 of Equitable assets in Russia by outright confiscation. Then one day to Ivan Ivanovich went a Bolshevik agent with further blandishments. "Comrade, your policy was of course nullified in Russia along with other capitalist contracts by a Soviet decree. You might be able to collect from the company in America. Of course as a Soviet citizen you cannot leave Russia. In these circumstances, if you will sign this paper, our Government will sue for you in New York, charging a commission of 60%,"Ivan Ivanovich grumbled but signed...
...picturesque Tashkent last week, Farmer George Lomakin was tried for sabotage. "You are accused of failure to weed adequately, " rattled off the Bolshevik prosecutor, "and of using too much fertilizer." According to the Soviet official news agency, Farmer Lomakin was then stood up before a firing squad and shot...
...fact at the veiled trial seemed significant. Previously at such affairs the accused have been elderly or middle-aged persons at whom the Soviet Press sneered as "flotsam left over from the old regime." Youthful Russia has always been touted as solidly Bolshevik, solidly Stalinist. Last week the 14 accused at Leningrad were all young men in their 20's and 30's, Russians who have grown to manhood under the Red flag. They were accused broadly of a major plot to assassinate not only "Dear Friend Sergei" but the chief leaders of the Government, including Stalin...
...years when Lenin, Trotsky and Zinoviev were the Bolshevik Big Three, speeches like the above by tousle-haired, barrel-chested Grigory Zinoviev thoroughly alarmed Englishmen from dukes to grocers. After them was the chairman of the Third International, Moscow's still extant organization for promoting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. In those days Promoter Zinoviev had plenty of money. He poured millions into the treasuries of English trade unions. Probably he did not write the notorious Zinoviev Letter, purporting to "instruct" Laborite (i.e. Socialist) officials of James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet (TIME...
...that Old Bolshevik Mikhail Koltsov, member of Izvestia's Editorial Board, such talk was astounding news. "Not so long ago," he editorialized, "the Communist Party and all Communist organizations persecuted those among Soviet youths who wore clean shirts and neckties, used perfume or face powder, and attended musical shows. . . . Times have changed...