Word: klara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela Kun. She is described as "a woman with an overbubbling temperament, always found where the fight is hottest...
...Russia christenings, marriages and death ceremonies occur, are celebrated and mourned without the aid of the Church. Bolshevism has given a peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...
...dreadful possibility of a meeting between a Vladimir Ilich Ulianov Lenin New Economic Policy and a Klara Zetkin Revolution Electrification Meer...
...stage, which was bedecked with the red trappings of Communism admixed with a strange assortment of banners, sat a select committee of Soviet Grand Dames, and among them, the Priest Bukharin. There was Klara Zetkin, whose kindly face is but a mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov...
...that brave woman who died for the workers, and I knew I was right." Then, with greater strength, she added fervently that it had come to her that she must dedicate her "own girl child to the same life of sacrifice as Rosa Luxembourg." She handed the baby to Klara Zetkin, who, with the child in her arms, spoke of Rosa Luxembourg* as "my martyred comrade, whose name this child will bear henceforth, that her memory may remain fresh and living among us." Tears sprang to the eyes of many a young girl in the audience, the electric current...