Word: leninization
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Landan claims that "much of the onus for the oppressive social and political atmosphere in the Soviet Union today must necessarily rest with Stalin's successors." Who then was responsible for crushing the Kronstadt revolt of 1921, where revolutionary sailors called for implementation of Lenin's own slogan of "All Power to the Soviets" and were massacred by troops sent by Lenin and commanded by Trotsky? Who shifted the practice of the Third International from prompting international revolution to defending the national interests of the Soviet government and attempting to change the course of other revolutionary movements by executive fiat...
WHILE Moscow was celebrating Lenin's centennial with pomp and rhetoric, the Soviet military marked the occasion in a more dramatic way. Fanning out across three oceans and nine seas, more than 200 Soviet warships staged the greatest naval maneuvers in the world's history. At the same time, hundreds of medium-and long-range Russian bombers ventured far beyond the borders of the Soviet Union. The U.S. reported 500 separate sightings as far apart as Japan and Iceland...
THAT statement by Lenin referred to the czarist forces of Nicholas II. The Soviet army of today is still isolated, though not much more so than armies of other major powers. Perhaps the greatest difference is that it enjoys far higher prestige and power within its country than its Western counterparts do in theirs. Though bureaucracy and inertia beset much of Soviet society, the highly trained military is less inefficient than many other sectors of Soviet life...
...soldier's day begins at 6 a.m., ends with lights out at 10 p.m., and is filled with rigorous training, physical exercise and equally vigorous political indoctrination. Each unit has a "Lenin room" in its barracks, where there are propaganda displays, such as pictures of racial troubles in the U.S. and political literature. The Soviet soldier is instilled with a sense of dedication to the Communist cause, a readiness to defend the motherland and a xenophobic dread of foreign subversion...
...extraordinary man, certain to make a mark on the world. Once, leaving, I saw that he was just behind me, so that I held the door open for him till he had passed. That was the nearest I ever got to him. I never sat next to Lenin. No such luck...