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...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
...Your cover on the occasion of Lenin's anniversary is an unpardonable sacrilege. Your utilization of such a flagrant artistic mediocrity to defame the memory of the George Washington of millions of people throughout the world is a sad comment on your own lack of fairness, objectivity and cultural comprehension...
...Shahn's cover picture of Lenin speaks of Communism with an eloquence as powerful as Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Here is Lenin's face, not the likeness that God gave him at birth, but the likeness of the twisted, humorless, mad, rationalized world he built for his followers. That cramped, despotic teaching hand is the perfect portrait of a Communist textbook or a Party meeting...
...born in Russia very shortly after Lenin's brother was hanged as a Narodovolets, and in high school I was wooed unsuccessfully by both Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. "Narodnaia Volia" was still recent history, and the agitators used this slogan in the meaning of "People's Freedom" as well as "People's Will...
...threats of rocket-borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded by the same Presidium, waved his Homburg in the middle of the lineup atop Lenin's tomb...