Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant to the Soviet regime is that Stalin has chosen the Supreme Council as his sounding board. Since 1930 he has spoken often: to Communist Party Congresses, to graduates of the Red Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first...
...Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which the country is divided, all nominated and elected in the same way. On top of the whole heap is the Supreme Council of two houses. To Moscow last week to hear Dictator Stalin there came...
...they broadcast frantically for peace: "To all! To all! To all!" They summoned a congress of the Third International, sent out a manifesto which began: "Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters of the country-a starving, typhus-ridden, spent and ruined country that lay, in "chaos and old night," from the steppes of the South to the black, reckless, European plain...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...
...Russians were quick to point out that this arrangement still left the way wide open for the British and French to attend another Munich parley (for which they have no taste). In an officially inspired editorial in Izvestia, Moscow daily newsorgan, the U. S. S. R. demanded iron-clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party...