Word: kamenev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purges, he said, the Party was stronger than ever. On this subject he came closer than anywhere in the speech to using strong language: "Some spokesmen of the foreign press have been telling idle tales that the purging of Soviet organizations of spies, assassins and wreckers like Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Yakir, Tukhachevsky, Rozengolts, Bukharin and other monsters has 'sapped the strength' of the Soviet system and caused 'demoralization.' This inane drivel is worth nothing but ridicule...
...Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S. cinemaudiences that Stalin was Lenin's fair-haired boy, that Lenin trusted him much more than he did "idiotic" pessimists like Trotsky, "traitors" like Leo Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev. With youthful, black-browed Stalin standing stolidly at his right, puffing on a Hawkshaw pipe, Lenin (Boris V. Shchukin) addresses his colleagues. "Stalin is right," he barks, "there must be immediate seizure of power." Throughout the film Stalin is shown frequently, studying maps, arranging for Lenin...
...drastic nature of Stalin's recent "purge." Notably missing from this new Cabinet was Commissar for Justice Nikolai Vasilievich Krylenko, the pouncing prosecutor of early Moscow purge trials. Successor to Krylenko is Judge Nikolai Richkov, who sat on the bench which condemned to death famed Old Bolsheviks Piatakov, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Named new chief of the Caspian-i. e., No. 1 maker of five-year-plans-was Nikolai Voznesensky, formerly vice-commissar under famed Commissar Valery Mezhlauk...
...defeated the White Armies and saved the Revolution is entirely omitted, as are other Old Bolsheviks who have now been executed. Watching the film this week, Our Sun beamed to observe that Lenin, impersonated by ace Soviet Cinemactor Schchukin, not only never has any dealings with Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev but at mention of their names denounces them...
...Bolshevist guillotine was built by Lenin. Trotsky as well as Stalin, Kamenev as well as Zinoviev, helped in its erection...