Word: leninization
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...final pre-election ritual is a series of speeches by Politburo members. Malenkov spoke from Moscow's marble Hall of Columns, which the Czars built as a playhouse and where the dead Lenin lay in state before he was embalmed and moved to his red granite tomb in Red Square. It was a long spiel (some 7,000 words in its English translation), full of stock praise for Soviet achievements. The keynote lines were aimed at Western ears...
...unquestionably a first-rate organizer, with a flair for totalitarian political management. As a party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before his death, that "Comrade Stalin is too rude." Malenkov uses the Russian equivalents of four-letter words, and behind his back his underlings have dubbed him "the Kremlin's turkey...
...taken between two escorts up two flights of stairs into a small office . . . On the wall to my left was a picture of Lenin, on the opposite wall a frame with the phrase 'Merciless Fight Against Foreign Agents...
Second Grade: "Stalin, the best disciple of Lenin." Soviet military campaigns in World War II. The liberation of Hungary by the Red army. How Russia aided Hungary's postwar reconstruction...
Behind the pillared portico of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, built by an imperial czar, the imperial commissars held jubilee last week on the 26th anniversary of holy Lenin's death. Present for the annual memorial address were the new Red masters of China, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had been in Moscow since Dec. 16, and his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, who had just arrived...