Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow, the anniversary was celebrated solemnly, ceremoniously, peacefully, for three whole days. The city was draped in cloth of red. Not a street was there that did not exhibit a picture of Lenin, Karl Marx or Trotzky. Red Army and Red Navy recruits took the Red oath of allegiance to the Red Government. Red troops paraded the streets; the Red proletariat applauded. Red orators spoke thus...
...hour of the reception arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...
...letter sent out in Pennsylvania to collect funds for the G. O. P. treasury: "We have in LaFollette and Wheeler a Lenin and Trotzky. . . . The American dollar, of 100 cents value, will help this defensive fight against a rampant radicalism...
...Krumm Heller, a writer on international affairs, presented the world with some hitherto unpublished excerpts from the will of the great Lenin, founder of Bolshevik Russia. The excerpts, which may be authentic but are probably false, read...
...were awaiting him. He was imprisoned and brought up for trial at Moscow, scene of many of his assassinations. The opening days of his trial were held in camera. He told his judges that President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia had contributed several thousands of dollars to a murder plot against Lenin, Trotzky and other Bolsheviki. He told of his disagreement with Lenin?how he had advocated murder and Lenin had advocated the organization of the proletariat to oust the Tsar from his throne. He told of a plot to kill Rakovsky (now Charge d'Affaires in Great Britain), and Foreign Minister...