Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chin and then began to read his paper. He wasn't a bit excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell." After living in France, Austria, Germany and Russia the children started off for their first trip to the U. S. They stopped in London on the way were taken to Madame Tussaud's. "In the Chamber of Horrors...
...during the past decade has been clearly no better than that of a committee. Our inference is that it has been, in fact, the very opposite of a dictatorship. It has been, as it still is, government by whole series of committees." They explain Stalin's prominence thus: Lenin's death left a fearful hole; "some new personality had to be produced for the hundred and sixty millions to revere." Trotsky was considered too dangerous, so Stalin was chosen, deliberately propagandized into the nation's hero. While they admit that Stalin's success has made...
...miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
...Plans to proclaim February as the first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME, Dec. 16), now receives as a holder of the Order of Lenin a lifelong pension and a pass permitting him to travel free twice a year on Soviet railways, boats, airplanes, trams and busses...
...make us safe for Washington or Lenin...