Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray and Leader Lewis. Conspicuously dangling by the neck was an effigy of Tom Girdler...
...Electoral Law no candidate may run for more than one Russian parliamentary seat, and Stalin, the perennial nominee, withdrew his candidacy in all constituencies except the Stalin district of Moscow. "Who will feel like competing with Comrade Stalin [in the Stalin district]?" asked Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the Communist Youth, and its editor "guessed" that all the other candidates in the Stalin district "probably" would withdraw. They did. Nearly two years ago Joseph Stalin told an interviewer: "You are puzzled by the fact that only one party will come forward at the elections. You think there will be no election...
Beginning last October, the process ot nomination commenced all over Russia at open meetings, with the nominating vote by show of hands in the presence of local Communist officials. These officials the Soviet press exhorted to "see that the right people are chosen." Moscow observers noted not only that 712 of 1,143 constituencies nominated Stalin for Parliament but most of them also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases...
...example set in the Stalin district was rapidly followed all over the Soviet Union, candidates everywhere withdrawing in favor of the candidate favored by the Communist Party and the Stalin State. In all Russia last week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose...
...week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...