Word: leninization
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...Friday afternoon, a motor hearse rolled to the ornate House of the Trade Unions. There, where Lenin lay in state in 1924, the neatly arrayed remains of Joseph Stalin were placed. In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from...
...silent 35,000 massed in the flower-banked vastness of Red Square. Thousands held black-bordered portraits of the dead man. A 750-piece band stood motionless. Tall, grey-coated guardsmen paced silently before the great red and black stone mausoleum Stalin had built for Lenin, and now is to share with him until the government builds a promised new Pantheon for Stalin, Lenin and all the lesser gods of Communism...
...plenipotentiaries of the satellites-Czechoslovakia's Gottwald, Hungary's Rakosi, Poland's Bierut and others. The procession halted and the pallbearers, headed by Malenkov, gently moved the coffin from the carriage. Silently the new leaders of Russia climbed the 40 marble steps to the top of Lenin's tomb, where Joseph Stalin had stood innumerable times to receive the salute of the masses-where he had stood grimly that day in November of 1941 to review the Red army while the German Wehrmacht pounded at the gates of Moscow; where he had stood triumphantly...
This time it was Stalin's eulogizers who stood there. From new Premier Georgy Malenkov came the kind of message that served his mentor so long and so well. "The Soviet Union . . . is waging a consistent policy . . . of peace . . . A policy based on the Lenin-Stalin premise of the possibility of coexistence and peaceful competition of . . . capitalist and socialist," said he. But Russia had a "sacred duty" to keep its army mighty. Next spoke Beria (who called Malenkov the disciple of Stalin) and then, slightly choked by emotion, Old Bolshevik V. M. Molotov. At 11:55 a.m.the orators were...
Malenkov represented himself as the longtime advocate of Asia First. He dipped into Soviet Scriptures: "Lenin pointed out in 1923 that the outcome of the world's struggle between capitalism and Communism depends in the long run on the fact that Russia, China and India comprise the overwhelming majority of the [earth's] population." With the Communist conquest of China, the Asia Firsters had something to brag about...