Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This peep into Stalin's mind broadened as the Dictator described "Capitalism, Trotskyism and the conceit of members of the Communist Party" as "the three great enemies of Russia...
When contented Communists sit back in their slippers after dinner, many of their musings nowadays are about the International Column in Spain and its Red militia. In London this week British Reds were snapping up copies of a handy new work, Defence of Madrid, the siege of which still rages, written by the London News Chronicle's, civil war Correspondent Geoffrey Cox, a warm Communist sympathizer and a fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks...
...served throughout the remainder of the Russian civil war, and rose to be one of their best commanders. After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful...
Since most communist organs are convinced that Britain's Catholic Charge d'Affaires George Arthur D. Ogilvie-Forbes is a sort of Papal Ogre in Spain, the News Chronicle's reasonably objective Geoffrey Cox takes time out to report that considering that he is a Catholic" he is really not such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them...
Using military terminology and foreshadowing regimentation of the Communist Party tighter than ever, Stalin described Russia's 3,500 most prominent Communists as the "general staff," their 35,000 immediate Communist subordinates as "party officers," and the next immediate 125,000 subordinates as "noncommissioned officers" of the remaining 1,800,000 party members in Russia. Tactful Generalissimo Stalin did not call these "soldiers...