Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians who have rendered such supreme services to the Soviet Government as to win its highest decorations, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star, received their beribboned medals from the Soviet Central Executive Committee last week. What had these heroes done? Who were they? As to nine of the ten, Moscow correspondents could find out absolutely nothing, not even where they live or what may be their jobs. The only hero definitely spotted was Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky, and everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years ago the Secret Police of Leningrad were...
...Nearly every mind that might have disputed with Stalin for leadership has been destroyed by execution, exile or imprisonment. If Lenin were to return to life in this Red State that he founded he would see few familiar faces. . . . The happiest people here now are those in middling jobs. It is only obscure people who feel safe. That is true in every field, including the Communist Party ranks. . . . This city's aspect is not different from ordinary times and no more troops than usual are in evidence...
When I was in the U.S.S.R. in 1932 I personally visited Reed's grave near Lenin's tomb and saw the headstone on it. I have carefully checked up to find out if there has been any change since that time. I can now state with certainty that there has not been; and that therefore Mr. Adams is right and Mr. Bullitt wrong...
Died, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, 59, favorite and last surviving sister of the late Nikolai Lenin, chief of the complaint bureau of the Soviet Control Commission; after several days' unconsciousness due to high blood pressure; in Moscow...
...intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin have been incarnated in life. The socialist reconstruction of society is not a distant prospect but a definite plan of great work .... And as in all epochs in reconstructing social relationships we are reconstructing science...