Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three founders (see cut) are alive and doing well. Pravda's first managing editor, Viacheslav Molotov, went to work under Nikolai Lenin's decree: the press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...
...communiqué disclosed the reason for Premier Choibalsan's appearance. The non-Soviet world knew even less about him than about his Soviet-dominated country. But it knew that he wears the Order of Lenin, for "conspicuous services in organizing material aid to the Red Army in the Mongolian People's Republic," and that in any discussion of Chinese-Russian relations, Marshal Choibalsan's nation will play an important part...
...rain poured down on Marshal Joseph Stalin and his commissars as they stood atop Lenin's red granite mausoleum. It poured down on 200 unblinking Red Army soldiers as they marched stiff-legged across Moscow's Red Square. It drenched the 1,400-piece military band and the cheering crowds who had braved the weather to see Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (on a black horse) and Marshal Georgi Zhukov (on a white horse) lead rumbling masses of tanks and motorized artillery in Russia's biggest victory celebration...
...most eyes were on the 200 soldiers. Each of them carried a captured German flag bedecked with captured German medals. Suddenly the massed band stopped blaring. Only hundreds of drums rumbled. As the 200 soldiers approached Lenin's tomb, they lowered the German flags (including Hitler's personal standard) and dragged them over the muddy cobblestones. In front of Lenin's tomb, the soldiers, without turning their heads or breaking step, tossed the flags into...
...Marshal Stalin too. By decree of the Supreme Soviet he became the second living European to receive the title of Generalissimo (the first: Generalissimo Francisco Franco). Generalissimo Stalin was also awarded the Order of Victory, the Gold Star Medal of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin...