Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Directly, the unveiled tank, which was mounted on a truck, rolled off on the first leg of its journey to the battle line. Behind it others rolled, named VOROSHILOV, KARL MARX, LENIN, TIMOSHENKO, BUDENNY...
From where he sat he could see portraits of Marx and Engels and a pale death mask of Lenin. But the Russian past all seemed very far away now-even the recent past in which he had consolidated his own dictatorship by executing hundreds of old friends and Old Bolsheviks. He was a hard man, worthy of the name of steel. He could feel it in himself. If anyone could come through the great historic grinding in which he now found himself, he could...
Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
...peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic liberties." Here Comrade Stalin swallowed another gulp of tea and thanked Great Britain and the U.S. for their offers of aid. Calling on all the people to rally around, not the Communist State, but "the party of Lenin-Stalin," he concluded: "Forward, to our victory...
...Lenin early urged British Communists to affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front...