Word: kalinin
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...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...
...Tshrdynzev and Kalinin, directors of the State Textile Trust, were condemned to death. Their crime was betraying State capitalism...
Members of the "Unofficial Commission of Hearst Newspapers" completed a "long and thorough" tour of Russia with a week-end conference with M. Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union (of Socialist Soviet Republics) Central Executive Committee...
...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...
...Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee is composed of a Chairman (M. Kalinin, popularly supposed to be President of Soviet Russia), a Secretary and 15 members. Although the Presidium has power to make war, confer decorations, ratify peace treaties, receive the credentials of foreign diplomatic representatives, etc., it is in its turn under the thumb of the Union Congress of Soviets. However, between the sessions of the Executive Committee, business is carried on by the Presidium...