Word: leninization
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Molotov. But, as ever, the biggest show of all was in Moscow, where 10,000 chosen commissars crowded into the huge new Lenin Sports Palace for a ceremonial session of the Supreme Soviet...
Stepping briskly past the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum, where new Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky took the salute that two weeks earlier would have gone to Zhukov, the troops of the Moscow garrison drew a roar of cheers; so did the trim female marchers of the Spartak Sports Club, who carried a large globe around which revolved two model Sputniks. But the hardware that clanked through the world's most effective display case for military might was impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception...
...such an apocalyptic week Communism's new coalition of dazzling technology and cutthroat politics represented an epochal threat to the free world. After 40 years of Bolshevism, the operative words were still Lenin's "kto kovo?", meaning who shall eliminate whom...
...front pages last week flashed the snaggle-toothed grin of a stubby little muzhik-a peasant's son who in less than five years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip or a proverb...
Rapidly it becomes clear that T.T.'s bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved...