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Only woman in the Soviet Union who gives Joseph Stalin a piece of her mind when she feels like it is spunky old Nadezhda Krupskaya, the Widow of Lenin. Several years ago she vexed the Dictator by demanding that Soviet schools be opened to every Russian child, even the moppets of onetime Tsarists, priests, capitalists and kulaks. According to a popular Soviet jest about Stalin, he roared: "Tell that old woman that if she doesn't shut up and mind her business, I'll appoint a new Widow of Lenin...
...prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics. Last week this indomitable lady suddenly lashed out at both her cousins, the Nationalists and the Canton Government of the South. Said...
...displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week's new anti-religious campaign was to release a series of articles by the most famed and heeded woman in Soviet Russia, a woman known simply as KRUPSKAYA. She, a widow, would be called in other lands, "Mrs. Lenin." Last week Relict Krupskaya wrote: "The need is imperative that the State resume systematic anti-religious work among children. We must make our school boys and girls not merely non-religious but actively and passionately antireligious. . . . "The home influence...
Moscow: "Give us a short history of Lenin's life and sayings that we may insert it in the place of the Gospel." Nadejda Constantinovna Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, answered thus many of her numerous messages of condolence: "Let not your deep, abounding grief be expressed in outward honors for Lenin's personality. Monuments to his name and sumptuous ceremonies-all that in his life he valued so little, found them all so tiresome. Remember how much poverty and lack of order yet exist in our country. If you want to honor Lenin's name build...