Word: leningrader
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...Justice. Said he: "The total number of arrests of all classes in the last six weeks does not exceed 100, the majority of whom probably will soon be released. Most prominent among these are seven members of the late Prince Golitzyn's family, who were arrested in Leningrad [Petrograd] for corresponding with the Grand Duke Cyril, one of the claimants to the ! Russian throne...
Lenin's successors paid adulation to their defunct leader by renaming the city Leningrad. Western editors didn't take much notice. The Soviets, by transferring the capital to Moscow and by their economic policies towards foreign trade, have depressed Leningrad, nee St. Petersburg, from a population of 1,250,000 to 400,000. Leningrad, ruined, shrunken, wizened, is an appropriate memorial to the man whose political and economic philosophies plunged Russia into the greatest social experiment of modern times...
Five miles of ragged Russian peasants, we read, filed sorrowfully past the body of Lenin, bowing reverently before this terrorist of the new regime. The capital city itself, it is said, is to be renamed Leningrad. One feels that all this is mourning for the man, attribute to the leader rather than to his ideas or methods...