Word: bolsheviks
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...year's biggest, brightest holiday, the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, was at hand, but somehow the holiday mood refused to ignite...
Died. Otto Vigelmovich Kuusinen, 83, oldest member of the Soviet Union's aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow...
...crowd of soldiers, sailors and workers, whose fluttering red banners were lit up by searchlights. To full-throated cheers Lenin delivered a speech at the station, another in the street outside, a third from the balcony of Ksheshinskaya Palace, former home of the Czar's mistress and now Bolshevik headquarters...
...sure how Lenin's regime managed to survive the invasion by allied armies from all sides, the civil war, the total economic chaos resulting from Lenin's belief that "any cook can run a state." He had made literally no plans for governing. He told his Bolshevik high command, "Try to nationalize the banks, and then see what to do next. We'll learn from experience...
American fears of increasing Chinese influence in the affairs of North Vietnam are groundless, Fall said. Minh is a Russian-trained Bolshevik and tends to side with Russia in the current Sino-Soviet dispute, he claimed...