Word: radek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin's big hour, when the Revolution had brought him hurrying back to Russia, the tone of his letters hardly changes. He writes Karl Radek in Stockholm: "The position is arch-complicated and arch-interesting." But with Kerensky out of the way and Lenin and his Bolsheviks in charge at last, his discursive letters shrink to notes and telegrams, their subjects swell to dictatorial size: "Advise you send them six months forced labour in mines. . . . Today at all costs Rostov must be taken. . . . Mobilize all forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars...
...frame-up system has been the cornerstone of Soviet 'justice' since the middle of 1918. Trotsky and Radek, Zinoviev and Bukharin helped build...
...sentencing not to Death but to ten years' imprisonment Karl Radek and the onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Comrade Grigoriy Sokolnikov, Stalin's Supreme Court spared two Big Reds with friends among journalists and statesmen of the World - although many attributed the sudden mercy twist of Moscow Justice to discreet, telegraphic intervention by the Premier of France...
When at last came the news that the Supreme Court had handed down 13 Death sentences but spared "That Monkey" Radek and three other self-confessed arch-traitors last week, the crowds in the Moscow alleys were at first stupefied, incredulous. Had not Radek just been called by everyone such things as "the worst betrayer since Judas Iscariot"-the betrayer of Stalin? However, Communists are the world's most disciplined Party. With almost no grumbling, the Radek placards were discarded, the caricatures of other Old Bolsheviks doomed to Death raised high, and shouting, cheering into the Red Square swarmed...
...That Monkey" Radek almost certainly knew in advance he would be spared, for he behaved in Court last week with consummate impudence. He called a Supreme Court Judge "Comrade" - implying there were traitors and "Trotskyists" even on the Bench. He intimated that all the confessions were Ogpu-cooked lies, his own included...