Word: kamenev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of exceedingly select Communist company-including such prisoners as Comrade Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law of Great Exile Trotsky) and Comrade Grigory Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," and personal bodyguard of Lenin during the late Dictator's years of exile...
...head the Third International (Moscow's permanent base of operations for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy was judging two Red giants...
...because he is the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky, is the name of lean, neat-bearded, introspective Comrade Leo Kamenev, onetime Chairman (Speaker) of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Soviet Congress). In 1927 Comrade Kamenev, like his friend Zinoviev, was kicked out of the Party, repented, was reinstated. Last week Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (né Radomyslski) were each 49. They were charged not with having written, printed, distributed or inspired the anti-Stalin manifesto but merely with having known of its existence without immediately reporting it to the Dictator...
...this crime of omission Zinoviev and Kamenev were "expelled in perpetuity" from the Party, together with two females, Comrade Kaiurova and Comrade Zamiatina (charged with printing the manifesto) and other obscure persons, including one Comrade Rutin, who was called the chief conspirator...
Strange Mercy was shown to four comrades with potent connections among Big Reds. They, although seemingly much closer than Zinoviev or Kamenev to the conspiracy, were "provisionally expelled" from the Party, may at any time be reinstated. Unknown outside Russia, the favored four were said to include Paul Petrovsky whose father is Big Red Gregory Petrovsky, boss of the Ukranian Socialist Soviet Republic, No. 2 state in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...