Word: leninization
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...Text by Lenin. Where Communists are concerned, it is sometimes instructive to listen to what they themselves say. Last week the Taegliche Rundschau, official organ of the Red army in Eastern Germany, recalled how Lenin had made peace with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk to give the Soviet land "a breathing space . . . to give it the chance of putting the economy in order, to take advantage of disputes within the imperialist camp...
...Thus," wrote Taegliche Rundschau, "Lenin gave a classic example of the adaptation of Marxist strategy and tactics. He taught that detours often are necessary if, at a given moment, the opponent is superior in strength; that one must withdraw temporarily in order to summon up new strength. Only thus will it be possible to prepare the new attack, to establish the basis for the final victory ..." The Kremlin masters, it is safe to assume, have read their Lenin...
...There were annual amnesties in the first years of Lenin, but only the amnesty proclaimed on the tenth anniversary (1927) and after victory in World War II (1945) were officially called "general...
...present, this was enough-and even this tribute involved some stretching of the facts. Far from having been a pupil of Lenin's, 51-year-old Georgy Malenkov took no part in Lenin's 1917 Revolution or the bloody civil war that followed. According to the official Soviet account, Georgy Malenkov joined the party at 18, which sounds young enough. The fact is, he had sat prudently on the sidelines for two years (1918-20), though the Red army occupied his Ural home town of Orenburg; he enlisted under Lenin's banner only after the outcome...
From burrows outside the Iron Curtain and baronies inside, Red plenipotentiaries rushed to the Kremlin by plane and train for the emergency ingathering of the clan. From East Berlin, his neatly barbered, Lenin-type goatee nuzzling a huge brown overcoat collar, flew Walter Ulbricht, who likes to be called "the little Lenin," wears the title of Deputy Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu...