Word: kamenev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Russians woke up to face screaming headlines in the Stalin-controlled Press that a plot to assassinate Stalin had just been discovered, that the chief plotters were Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated...
...staged and broadcast this week one of his great propaganda trials to which the entire Russian nation is urged to listen in. Hitherto no Old Bolshevik leader against whom even the gravest charges have been proved has ever been executed, but this time Moscow broadly hinted that Zinoviev and Kamenev will be shot...
...that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until the Revolution...
According to the State's press handout, Zinoviev and Kamenev were proved to have conversed with other Communists in Moscow to this effect: 1) they believe that in Russia today ''there is no Party and no Central Executive Committee"* of any validity, merely Dictatorship; 2) they believe that within the Stalin clique quarrels have been frequent of late, threatening a split in the Dictatorship; 3) they believe that "everything written in the Soviet Press about the success of industrialization has been false." amounting to systematic "deception of the proletariat"; 4) they believe that "the material condition...
...Russians who believe such things, is Death the right punishment? According to the State's Press last week, "Yes!" The Dictator's newsorgans printed reams of resolutions said to have been passed by Communist groups all over Russia demanding Death for Kamenev and Zinoviev. Since 117 small fry had already been shot (TIME, Jan. 7). seemingly nothing could have saved Prisoners Zinoviev and Kamenev last week, if the expressions of popular demand were genuine. When dread Judge Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," sentenced Zinoviev to only ten years imprisonment and Kamenev to only five...