Word: kamenev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Revolution. The able correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot, who long served the New York World, was on the spot in Russia during the Revolution and has written: "While the faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY." Lenin in the hottest days for Reds had skipped out of Petrograd (now Leningrad) to the safety of Finland...
...whole Soviet generation is growing up to idolize Stalin-and dead Old Bolsheviks tell no tales. It is a fact that of the 1917 Communist Quintet (Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin) who won the Revolution and later became the undisputed masters of Russia, only Stalin and Trotsky have escaped death...
...last two of these Old Bolsheviks to fall, Kamenev (brother-in-law of Trotsky) and Zinoviev, were executed by a Stalin firing squad after trial proceedings of such a nature (TIME, Aug. 31) that today they are a festering scandal in Communist circles throughout the world. The supreme Trotskyist who, according to the Moscow verdict, was the instigator of Communists who sought to kill Stalin, is significantly alive...
...justify your stating it as a finite and established fact. In view of the overwhelming evidence of Lenin's complete confidence in Stalin as compared to his profound mistrust of Trotsky, does it not seem probable at Krupskaya Lenin, sympathizing for reasons her own with the Trotsky-Zinoviev-Kamenev combine against Stalin and knowing her position to be inviolate under any circumstances, made a few alterations in her husband's testament...
Referring to Stalin's recent execution in Russia of Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) as abettors of Stalin's enemy Trotsky (né Bronstein), Dr. Goebbels snorted: "Every inner Bolshevist struggle is a family fight among Jews!* . . . We can discuss this question frankly only in Germany because elsewhere in the world it is a dangerous matter to mention Jews. . . . May the world act before it is too late...