Word: kamenev
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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...
...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...
Prisoner Fritz David, said to be a German, confessed that at the 1935 Comintern Congress he sat in a box clutching in his pocket a pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism...
...happy that there is a Stalin and that he will continue to lead the country!" cried Prisoner Sergei Mrachkovsky, gilding the lily. Even this was capped by Prisoner Kamenev whose second and final lecture at the trial was a deliberate incitement to Communists abroad to go and assassinate Trotsky. "Zinoviev and I are dead!" cried Kamenev. "Trotsky remains the only person to guide terroristic activities against Stalin. The sooner his hands are checked the better." Judge Ulrich, who has the reputation of having handed out more Death sentences than any other jurist in the world, left the court to cogitate...