Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many ex-Communists, Ruth Fischer tends to deify Lenin, heaping all the sins of Communism on Stalin. A typical Fischer anecdote: in 1925 Stalin had summoned her to Moscow. When she arrived her passport was taken away and for ten months she was a virtual prisoner in Moscow's flea-bitten Hotel Lux. Stalin left Moscow on vacation and Zinoviev plotted to get her safely back to Germany...
...Lenin invented that kind of Communism, although Ruth Fischer prefers to blame it on Lenin's heir, Stalin...
...Communist high command, acting through the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has declared that the genetics of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms) is the only genetics that may be taught in Soviet institutions. The Morgan-Mendelian theory (that heredity is controlled by genes in the cells), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., has been forbidden and its adherents disciplined...
...Peace? Hatred of America is systematically inculcated in Russians. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow (relates Welles) never locks its front door-because the penalties for associating with Americans are far heavier than the penalties for theft. He recalls Lenin's words: "We cannot live in peace; memorial services will either be sung over the Soviet republic or world capitalism." Welles nevertheless believes that war with Russia can be avoided forever if the U.S. will help non-Communist countries to help themselves...
When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...