Word: kalinin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shout increased to a dull reverberant roar; along the pathways came the leader of Russia. Then deal silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe, one of the original flags of the Paris Commune (Europe's first encounter with Karl Marx Communism)-the last to go over the barricades when the French regulars from Versailles crushed the Reds. In the centre of the delegation fluttered from...
...favor, and we are now witnessing the strengthening of the Communist movement in practically every country of the globe." One fine, starry night the 500 delegates trooped into Red Square at Moscow and grouped themselves around the jet black tomb of Lenin. To the top of the tomb went Kalinin, the peasant-President of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets, and there he extolled the greatness of the dead Russian leader. More than 15,000 people assembled to witness the impressive scene...
...After Kalinin had spoken, the delegates were permitted to descend into the tomb and view the body of Lenin through the heavy glass cover of the red coffin. Outside the proletariat sang revolutionary songs...
...Tshrdynzev and Kalinin, directors of the State Textile Trust, were condemned to death. Their crime was betraying State capitalism...
...Said M. Kalinin: "The only possibility here is that a counterrevolution would reverse the situation and swing us back to capitalism. But, even then, foreign property would be secure, whereas other countries are now threatened by revolutions which would abolish property rights...