Word: ilyich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around London's Fleet Street last week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...
...Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
...most important and the most terrible in the Marxist brood are those who inherited the cold, disciplined logic necessary for the serious pursuit of power. Their leader is the late Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. When the Russian people, without his help, snatched at democracy, he snatched it away from them. Like Father Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists...
Last week, on the huge, red-draped stage of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, before hills of spring-hued paper blossoms, Stalin was very much alive. The ceremonies hon ored the 24th anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's death (Stalin, at 68, has now outlived Lenin by 15 years). Surrounded by assorted party bigwigs, Stalin listened to his new Agitation and Propaganda chief, tousled, turbulent Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, make his maiden speech. It was a right promising debut. Said Suslov...
...First used in the revolutionary magazine Dawn in December 1901, when Lenin, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, adopted an underground party name-as Stalin, Trotsky, Molotov and many others...