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Died. Mikhail Markovich Borodin (real name: Mikhail Gruzenberg), 68, top international Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary...
...this period, Sun Yat-sen had welcomed Russian help for his revolution. Russia sent help-and organizers. One of the Kremlin's Far Eastern experts, with the romantic name of Michael Borodin (he had formerly been a Chicago dentist with the less romantic name of Mike Gruzenberg), brought Moscow organization charts, showed the Chinese Nationalists how to reorganize the Kuomintang on the pattern of the Communist Party in Russia, and even how to set up a party secret police. Sun Yat-sen's Communist helpers were all set to take over from within, while Chiang Kai-shek...
Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
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