Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LENIN'S WARNING TO STALIN...
...future. His own underground alias was derived from molot, meaning hammer. But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip hammer, the stuff of his soul was not steel, but the durable latex of a heavy-handed rubber stamp. "The best filing, clerk in Russia," Lenin had said. "You are mediocrity incarnate," shouted Trotsky...
...trainside speech about "our fates being inseparable," despite the fact of "something unheard of and tragic" having taken place in the recent past. He expressed the profound conviction that "nothing of the kind will ever happen again between the two countries marching along the path of Marx, Engels and Lenin." No one mentioned the name of Stalin. Afterwards, to the sound of loud speakers blaring Yugoslav folk songs and the cheers of tens of thousands of Russian onlookers, ex-Traitor Tito drove through Moscow to the Kremlin and then to Spiridonovka Palace, official residence of the new Soviet Foreign Minister...
...Slender, handsome, kind-hearted and a spectacular orator, he is the most popular man in Indonesia. No Indonesian can outtalk him; he has survived innumerable revolts, more than a dozen Cabinet changes, a restive army. He has skimmed John Dewey, Marx, Lenin, Jefferson, Lincoln, John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife...
...Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross-examined by Vishinsky was one ex-Premier (Rykov), several Vice Premiers, two ex-chiefs of the Communist International, two ex-chiefs of the political police, nearly all the Soviet ambassadors in Europe and Asia, and all the members of Lenin's old Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile) and Joseph Stalin, who brought the charges. All 54 were executed, or disappeared in Siberia. What made Prosecutor Vishinsky's triumph as peculiar as it was complete was that all the accused seemed to make free admissions of their guilt...