Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...Soviets, even the highest, Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party is Boss. When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials...
PYRAMID OF POWER. As Red Army divisions, marching 50 men abreast, sweep across Moscow's vast Red Square, leaders of the Party and the State watch from a parapet of Nikolai Lenin's glistening black and red granite tomb. When President Roosevelt made overtures last week to the Bolsheviki (a Russian word meaning "majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed...
...Army is numerically the second strongest in the world (562,000) but Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic Viacheslav Rudolphovich Menzhinsky (below at left). The Gay-Pay-Oo have the right to seize anyone without a warrant, to try and condemn the prisoner without a jury...
TRAITORS WITHIN-Herbert T. Fitch- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Documented memoirs of a real Scotland Yarder, with intimate glimpses of such notables as Lenin, Trotsky, King George, the glamorous Angelica Balabaroff...