Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your picture of the Soviet leaders lined up on the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum: How could anyone-such as many liberals, artists, intellectuals, and so forth-be so gullible as to think that that line of fat porkies . . . could be sincerely and conscientiously interested in the welfare of the masses of people on the earth...
...wrote Lenin, and Communists obediently burrowed deep into U.S. labor unions in the '30s. Since then, the A.F.L. has cleaned house; by 1950, eleven Communist-run unions had been thrown out of the C.I.O. But Communist labor bosses, despite exposure of their Red ties by congressional committees, have managed to keep control of seven independent unions and of scattered locals within the C.I.O. and A.F.L. Altogether, these little Politburos still control some 500,000 members, or about 3% of all union members, some of them in the nerve centers of U.S. industry...
Opposite the Kremlin, on the northeast side of Red Square, there stands a strange old building, sometimes plastered with the likenesses of Lenin and Stalin. The outside of the building is like a wedding cake, but within, there are so many modern corridors and pillared halls that the casual visitor might wonder whether to say a prayer or catch a train...
...Lenin declared the war in 1920: "The peasant lives in a separate homestead, and he has bread; by that fact alone he can enslave the workers." Five million peasants starved to death when Lenin's grain collectors took the bread force...
First, he smashed the links by merging them into huge (80 to 150 men) agricultural brigades, bossed by the commissars. Pravda described one brigade at work on the Lenin's Memory kolkhoz: "The brigade women pick the potatoes dug up by machines driven by the men . . . They are followed by supervisors from the party cells who mark down the efficiency of each worker...