Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolshevik Party from 1903 until my arrest, and I believe that I am, still a Bolshevik. I did not speak the truth before my examiners.† I lied, of my own free will. I will tell the truth now so that it will reach the ears of the Soviet Government heads. I am not a Trotskyist...
Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Department of the U. S. S. R. for the United States...
Yagoda this week is to appear as one of the accused, last week testified as a witness against the accused Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Lenin as Premier of the Soviet Union (1924-30), and Nikolai Bukharin (probably the closest friend of the founder of the Soviet regime alive today) for years known as "Heir of Lenin."† Rykov and Bukharin said last week that they had nothing to do with the assassination at Leningrad in 1934 of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Yagoda, who had been standing with head down, snapped up at this to testify...
...escorted by Yagoda from Moscow to Leningrad to investigate Kirov's murder, now confessed to have been the work of Escort Yagoda & accomplices whose confessed main objective was to kill Stalin. Yagoda always personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else with an assassination. He is scheduled...
...enormous sums: one time 20,000 German marks; then 15,000 Sterling pounds; in all a cool $1,000,000. Exile Trotsky, who issued voluminous heated replies to Moscow daily from Mexico City last week, included this: "I state categorically that the only sum I have received from the Soviet Treasury since my banishment from Russia was $2,500. . . . This sum of money was given me with complete legality and the agent secured a receipt from...