Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trotzky, Commissar of War: "We are entering on an epoch of aggressive development of American militarism which follows the same policy of expansion as pre-war German militarism. . . . In reality, American capitalism and its militarism are the sole cause of the World's unbalanced state and anarchy. United States militarism is now rising as an offensive, unruly and destructive force, carrying by its advance bloody coups d'etats and commotions...
Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, artist, litterateur, usually spoken of as a mild-mannered moderate: "I believe the Russian people and their posterity will always acknowledge that the Red Terror was the best page in Soviet history...
Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said: "Everything tends to show that the police acted on instructions from the central authorities . . . the action of the German police was audacious and insolent...
Cleopatra, as all the world knows, got Antony into a lot of trouble. Anna seems to be doing her worst for Léon. Next, the fascinating Simanova may well be expected to blight the happiness of Commissar Tchicherin of the Soviet Foreign office...
...Lunacharsky, who as Commissar of Education is also Supreme Lord of Theatreland in All the Russias, is a playwright. Last week his Hertzog (Duke) was produced at the People's Theatre in Moscow. That was not all. At the Little Theatre in Moscow Julius Caesar, a play by a lesser author named William Shakespeare, was also produced...