Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Commissar's car took the Ambassador to the metallurgical centre of the Ukraine near the great Dnepr River hydroelectric dam. In the heat of Russia's Revolution, some demanding comrades from the Ukraine called on the great Lenin and wanted to know what the Ukraine was going to get out of all this...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...
...tried unsuccessfully to borrow elsewhere first. Since Dr. Sun was an unpractical visionary, his death in 1925 greatly advantaged the Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind his façade of New Life Movement broadcasting was to sound out the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thoroughly as to whether or not in 1937 Nanking should end its ten-year tiff with...
...Bolshevist guillotine was built by Lenin. Trotsky as well as Stalin, Kamenev as well as Zinoviev, helped in its erection...
...Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have been noted (TIME, Jan. 8, 1934), but Nikolai Lenin did not die until 1924, Leon Trotsky was not fully mastered and exiled until 1929, and the first correspondent to interview the No. 1 Bolshevik after he reached the plenitude of J. STALIN, DICTATOR, was Eugene Lyons in 1930, followed by Walter Duranty a few days afterward...