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Twenty-three years had passed since Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's death. Two scientists last week assured the ikon-loving Russians: "We are convinced that Lenin's body will remain in its present state for hundreds of years." Lenin's place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin...
Comrade Pompadour. At last week's memorial ceremonies, a huge, floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
...remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from the river rattled the panes. One electric lamp burned dimly over a small table around which the Committee members met. The situation was tense. ... On Lenin's right sat Stalin in his dark Russian shirt, his silent self-possession forming a strong contrast to the excited tirades of some of our number. . . . Stalin was the very personification of strong will, clarity of purpose and coolheadedness...
Whoosh! Next day, U.S. Communists got around to paying their tribute to Little Father Lenin at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Climax of the memorial rally was unquestionably a song (see cut). The words were by C.I.O. Organizer Vern Partlow, music (a prolonged monotone) by leftist, talented Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans, Porterhouse Lucy). Robinson rendered it in person, strumming his guitar and crooning close to the party line...
...Bolsheviks for his consular staff, that he would grant Brazilian passports to anyone wanting to leave Russia for political reasons. Anti-Communists flocked to his office, and were promptly arrested by the Cheka. Pirro himself was a Cheka agent. Outraged by such police methods, Balabanov went straight to Lenin to protest. She reports in her memoirs (My Life as a Rebel). "Lenin looked at me with an expression which was more sad than sardonic. 'Comrade Angelica,' he said, 'what use can life make...