Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent speech made at Moscow, Nikolai Lenine gave out some of the details of his theory of Russia against the world, and more clearly defined his reasons for seeking trade with the western nations. Communism, he explained, has not failed, nor is it attempting to compromise with other countries when it enters the markets of the world. Russia never hoped to convert whole continents to Bolshevism, but is content to wait until the "workers of the world" of their own accord rise in rebellion against their present masters. In the meantime, what wiser course could be followed than that...
...stated that by the time the world should be writing another January First on its calendars, Bolshevism would be supreme? And now comes this new decision to undermine the reserve power of Western Europe and of America, ostensibly in preparation for the day of the great upheaval. Anyone but Nikolai Lenine would be awed by the enormity of the proposal thus given with such calm assurance--at least would keep secret a policy so easy to defeat; not so the Premier. He spreads the news abroad and invites the nations to come and deliver themselves into his hands...