Word: dzhugashvili
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...Lenin nicknamed him Stalin ("Steel") and he thereupon dropped his true surname Dzhugashvili. -Since the old Orthodox clergy imparted to their village flocks faith in the miraculous nature of lightning, the editors of Bezbozhnik have had to begin their refutation of religion with such elementals as attempts to demonstrate that lightning is merely an electrical phenomenon and not an indication that the Creator is vexed...
...During the past twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic...