Word: leninization
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...When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: "Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?" Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, and after four months announced they had found a method that would preserve Lenin's body intact indefinitely...
Last week, Sofia announced that precisely the same method would be applied to the body of the late Georgi Dimitrov-the first Communist hero since Lenin to receive the signal honor of this treatment...
...fact that Molotov was missing from the scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because his name appeared prominently on proclamations mourning Dimitrov. Thus Molotov remained first choice, with Malenkov a strong second, for the job of Stalin's successor, if & when Stalin, like Lenin and Dimitrov before him, becomes a semi-permanent thing...
...night last week small groups of striking transport workers sidled up to the building. At the entrance they disarmed two guards, rushed inside. While some strikers brandished guns at a door (see cut) behind which Russians were barricaded, 200 other strikers stampeded through the building, tore pictures of Lenin and Stalin from the walls. Only when four Russian officers, enraged by this desecration, screamed " 'Raus, 'raus!" (Out, out) and beat down on strikers with their fists, did the mob retreat...
Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...