Word: leningrader
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Mickey "the Dude" Sullivan, flery crusader against the Kremlin, hit the headlines all over the country when he had a resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council which would prohibit the presence of any book within Cambridge which had the words "Lenin or Leningrad...
...good laugh and other people can laugh with him and everything is fine. But when he starts poking fun at the legislative process and at the principles of law themselves, the laugh turns to a whinny. When Mickey introduced his latest resolution about the deletion of Lenin and Leningrad from the Cambridge scene, and then proceeded to secure its unanimous passage by the Cambridge City Council, he destroyed all the faith anyone could have had in his sincerity or in his intelligence. One or the other--there's no further choice...
Moreover, Russian officialdom began to experience a terror which continues to this day. For the murder of Stalin's "Dear Friend," Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigori Konstantinovich Ordjonkidze and Soviet Executive, Committee Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light of print...
...three-day battle in which they reported that two Russian regiments were "almost entirely destroyed." The Finnish communique added that "our troops are following the retreating enemy," and unofficial reports had it that they had chased Stalin's cannon fodder back into Russia and were striking toward the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, Russia's main supply line to its whole northern front...