Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin's death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars. It was 50 degrees below zero. To Correspondent Eve Curie, a little old woman in a tattered shawl said: "This is a real Russian winter. A winter to freeze Russia's enemies. A winter to freeze Hitler...
There was to be no holiday this year. Lenin would hardly have wanted his death to interfere with the war against Russia's enemies. But in their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin's tomb. Whether or not Lenin's remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other citizens, remembering other days, smiled at a large painting of Napoleon's 1812 retreat hung in a subway station...
...Russia of Lenin and Trotsky-the Russia of the Bolshevik Revolution-no longer exists. Through gradual, stern and often cruel evolution that Government had developed into what is now a system of state socialism operating on capitalistic principles and steadily and irresistibly swinging to the right. . . . This laboratory in Russia must establish in the minds of all honest, intellectual radicals the fact that safe progress comes only through the gradual processes of evolution. Hereditary, nervous, and glandular reactions cannot be destroyed in a generation...
...court, Government prosecutors unveiled a picture of the late Leon Trotsky, a red flag, stacks of books and pamphlets by Trotsky, Lenin, Marx. These could be considered as determining the defendants' state of mind ruled Judge Matthew M. Joyce. Said he: "In his early days Hitler wandered around in a greasy old overcoat and was belittled." Government witnesses, most of them faded or redyed Trotskyites, declared that...
...Walther Nicolai, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis...