Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin's Will...
...your issue of Sept. 7, you refer to a will left by Lenin in which he ''explicitly warned Russia" against the rise of Stalin...
...Text of Lenin's political "will" is printed as The Suppressed Testament of Lenin and sold for 10? by Pioneer Publishers of New York City, a branch of the U. S. Trotsky organization. Written in December 1922 and January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable...
...Victory is ours!" Adopting the tactic of Lenin and Trotsky who made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office...
...sending to Barcelona a quantity of gold bars from the vaults of the Bank of Spain. With the Premier watching, Red artillery opened up a terrific fire on the Whites, young Red militiamen flung themselves recklessly to death in a mad assault on strong White positions, and the Spanish Lenin went back to Madrid crying: "I am most optimistic! . . . We are doing wonders and we will do greater things...