Word: radek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet archcriminal, guiltiest of the Old Bolsheviks on trial, was "That Monkey" Radek, depicted horribly grimacing and malevolent on the placards which the Moscow crowds were about to shoulder in the Red Square, shouting exultation that Karl Radek was to be put to death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland...
Everyone last week who believed Izvestia, now raking Radek savagely in its columns, everyone who believed in Soviet Justice saw clearly that in Arch-Traitor Radek's case the only possible sentence was Death-and this had been predicted in cables not only by Walter Duranty of the New York Times but by all the big wire services out of Moscow...
...squads in the cork-lined cellars of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs ("Ogpu") was a foregone conclusion. Last week the Moscow editors were writing with higher-powered vituperation than ever before. This was because the Star Prisoner was their intimate friend and colleague of many a year, Comrade Karl Radek, until recently the No. i writer on foreign affairs of the Stalin official press. It was as if Walter Lippmann or the late Arthur Brisbane or the New York Times's Arthur Krock should be in the dock of the Supreme Court at Washington, about to be rubbed...
There were not placed on the green tables last week any pieces of paper stated to be from the hand of Trotsky. There were just charges and confessions in matching pairs. Confessions. Radek last week confessed that he helped assassinate in Leningrad two years ago Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), adding: "We decided to kill enough leaders from Stalin down to bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind...
...Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters he was supposed to have written had not yet been produced in Moscow; he once more offered to produce the whole of his voluminous correspondence to prove that he broke with Radek as far back as 1928; he demanded that prisoners who confess in Moscow that they saw him in Oslo or elsewhere describe the room in which these confessed encounters (which Trotsky denies) took place. He heaped his most biting scorn upon the charges & confessions of Red Romm. Where did Romm...