Word: leninization
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...rain poured down on Marshal Joseph Stalin and his commissars as they stood atop Lenin's red granite mausoleum. It poured down on 200 unblinking Red Army soldiers as they marched stiff-legged across Moscow's Red Square. It drenched the 1,400-piece military band and the cheering crowds who had braved the weather to see Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (on a black horse) and Marshal Georgi Zhukov (on a white horse) lead rumbling masses of tanks and motorized artillery in Russia's biggest victory celebration...
...most eyes were on the 200 soldiers. Each of them carried a captured German flag bedecked with captured German medals. Suddenly the massed band stopped blaring. Only hundreds of drums rumbled. As the 200 soldiers approached Lenin's tomb, they lowered the German flags (including Hitler's personal standard) and dragged them over the muddy cobblestones. In front of Lenin's tomb, the soldiers, without turning their heads or breaking step, tossed the flags into...
Hail Darwin! Hail Franklin! The second get-together was in the red-and-gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...Francisco last week watched Russia's second team-the "independent" Byelorussians and Ukrainians. They included a biologist, a geologist, a philologist, a forester. Boldly Lenin's old Ukrainian friend, Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, said he expected other Soviet republics some day to enter the United Nations...
Joseph E. Davies, rich, Russia-fond ex-U.S. Ambassador (Mission to Moscow), was awarded the Order of Lenin for his "successful activities in strengthening Soviet-American relations...