Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keen judge of character, the late great Nikolai Lenin set the seal of his approval on William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, by calling him "a young man of great heart, integrity and courage." With this Lenin kudos behind him, Mr. Bullitt wound up last week a scouting visit to Moscow on which he was received by almost every prominent Soviet leader except Josef Stalin. Other ambassadors and ministers, most of whom are ostracized in Russia as "Capitalist spies," sat in their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic...
Mussolini used Liberalism as a tool to destroy the existing order, then he threw it aside. The same was true of Lenin and Hitler Liberalism is simply a weapon, in the present American crisis, for the purpose of destroying the ideals and institutions that have made us the best, most advanced and happiest nation in the world. If we are to survive, so-called Liberalism must be replaced by our time-worn methods that have stood the test...
STALIN (Djugashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich (born in 1879), an Old Bolshevik,* a professional revolutionist, V. I. Lenin's nearest and most loyal pupil and comrade in arms, a prominent theorist...
...rest of the Soviet sketch of Stalin is chiefly devoted to intensive efforts to depict him, rather than Trotsky, as the No. 2 Bolshevik during Lenin's lifetime. Twenty-three times the twinhood of Lenin & Stalin in doctrine & action is reasserted, despite the well-known "Testament of Lenin" in which the Communist Party was expressly warned by Comrade Lenin not to accept as his successor Comrade Stalin "who is too rough" but to choose "another man who in all respects differs from Stalin, namely one more patient, more logical...
...terrors of his life. At 22 (he is 60 now) he was exiled for pre-Communist revolutionary activities against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...