Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power stepped, last week, the first so-called "Labor" Cabinet of Norway, a group of Socialist and Communist statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
Where did he go? Why was he banished? The last question must be answered first. Lev Davidovich Trotsky and 50 more prominent Soviet politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their...
Ultra-Truculents. Exile to rot in Siberia was the sentence enforced, last week, upon the little known, ultra-truculent, blindly conservative group, formerly led in the Communist party by Comrade Sapronov. This stubborn band of heroes or madmen have braved threats of exile for years, and were the "opposition" when Trotsky was still "regular...
Correspondents in Moscow believed for several days that what had happened was the exile to Siberia and other remote Russian provinces of all the opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party and from Parliament (TIME, Dec. 26 and Jan. 16). Chief Oppositionist Lev Davidovich Trotsky, famed "father of the Red Army," chief disciple of Lenin, was reported banished to remote Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, whence comes caviar...
...addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...