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...Mountain. With the removal of Stalin's name and body from the Lenin Mausoleum, Russians everywhere hastened to help along Old Joe's "second death." The coal mining center of Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World...
Podgorny: "I should like to confirm that with examples. In the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Stalino districts, they even cut green corn that could have been picked." Khrushchev: "That's impermissible. Why, it's simply criminal...
...police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
...joined the Red army and fought in the Ukraine during the 1918-20 Civil War. He caught the eye of Party Worker Kaganovich, and his career began, first as a minor party secretary at Stalino, then in Kiev. When Kaganovich was assigned to supervise the building of the Moscow subway, he brought in the untutored young tough from the Donets to watchdog the workers. Khrushchev got into the Moscow city party organization in 1931, and when Stalin started liquidating the party leaders Khrushchev quickly put himself on the road to power with a whole string of speeches condemning the fingered...
Further deglorification would present awkward problems: whether to remove Stalin's body from its conspicuous place beside Lenin's in Red Square, whether to rename Stalingrad, Stalino, Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinir and Stalinabad. It was a measure of the Kremlin's cynical knowledge of Stalin's unpopularity (and their own) that within three years after the death of the man whose wisdom, genius and love they had sycophantly proclaimed from every loudspeaker, they could carelessly traduce his name without fear of rioting in the streets from the masses who were said to love...