Word: stalinist
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...objective (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), it was curious last week that official Moscow and the Party and press in Russia were indifferent to the honors President Cardenas was paying to Mexico's guest. Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed his Reds in Mexico City's St. Domingo Square and roared: "Down with Trotsky who is living in the home of the Capitalist Painter Rivera! . . . We demand the expulsion of Trotsky from Mexico. . . . Trotsky, the rotten bourgeois-stalking horse...
...even more authoritative Communist, and that -supposing the time ever comes when the Soviet Union is a "success" and has money to spare-Moscow will again shower gold upon Communist parties in other lands, a policy which is so "Trotskyist" today and so sharply distinguished now from what is Stalinist...
...with a finished technique of backhanded delicacy, and last week his activities were of unusual interest. Trotsky let it be known last month that he was going to have to leave Norway, and was afraid of hospitality proffered him by Mexico, lest he fall victim in its wilds to Stalinist agents. Last week, having established his unenthusiastic attitude toward Mexico in headlines, Comrade Trotsky quietly asked the pro-Stalin and highly radical Mexican Government to make its informally proffered hospitality official. This was promptly done by President Lazaro Cardenas, and Russia's Great Exile was expected to arrive...
...Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration, and all Soviet papers suddenly burgeoned with photographs of the rotund face, familiar to all Europe, under the caption: "The Stalinist Bearer of Peace." From Montreux Comrade Litvinoff modestly replied: "I shall continue to fight against the forces of war and aggression and go ahead with my work for peace, which is the only justification for the activities of a Soviet diplomat...
...fact at the veiled trial seemed significant. Previously at such affairs the accused have been elderly or middle-aged persons at whom the Soviet Press sneered as "flotsam left over from the old regime." Youthful Russia has always been touted as solidly Bolshevik, solidly Stalinist. Last week the 14 accused at Leningrad were all young men in their 20's and 30's, Russians who have grown to manhood under the Red flag. They were accused broadly of a major plot to assassinate not only "Dear Friend Sergei" but the chief leaders of the Government, including Stalin...