Word: leninization
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...Cambridge's most loved and also perhaps most hated politician. In 1935, a few of his friends asked him to run for City Councilor. Mickey accepted and won. He first rose to national fame by declaring that Cambridge would be a better place and its citizens purer if Lenin's name were scratched out of every book in the City limits. Mickey fought hard for this proposal and even though he lost, he is still gunning for "those radicals...
...crowd packed into Holford Square. In a drab house in this drab square in a drab suburb of London, Nikolai Lenin lived and dreamed for a few months in 1903, when the Congress of Russian Social Democrats was convened in the capital of imperial Britain. One thing he never dreamed was that a bust of himself would one day be unveiled there. Last week...
Ambassador Maisky pulled a cord. The Union Jack and the Hammer & Sickle drew apart, revealed Lenin's likeness in white concrete against a red background, over a concrete block with a red marble top. A band blared. Hundreds of British throats sang, "Arise ye prisoners of starvation," and as many more of the Internationale's fine yeasty words as British heads could remember. Then came the surprise: when the band launched God Save the King, nobody sang...
...Maisky did not let them off with a tribute. He duly presented the U.S.S.R.'s second highest decoration, the Order of Lenin, to Wing Commander Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood and three other R.A.F. pilots who had flown in Russia. But the Ambassador also had a message from Moscow. It was a message urgent with appeal, warning, a sense of crisis...
...Lenin-"Socialism, putting an end to classes, will thereby put an end to the State...