Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This peep into Stalin's mind broadened as the Dictator described "Capitalism, Trotskyism and the conceit of members of the Communist Party" as "the three great enemies of Russia...
...recalled the early Five-Year Plan slogan, "We must master technique," and sounded what Stalin's entourage said is the Moscow keynote...
Using military terminology and foreshadowing regimentation of the Communist Party tighter than ever, Stalin described Russia's 3,500 most prominent Communists as the "general staff," their 35,000 immediate Communist subordinates as "party officers," and the next immediate 125,000 subordinates as "noncommissioned officers" of the remaining 1,800,000 party members in Russia. Tactful Generalissimo Stalin did not call these "soldiers...
Thus many of the big new Russian tanks which Soviet newsreels show rushing in terrifying fashion across the Red Square are now giving mighty account of themselves in Spain, and so is the International Column directed by Stalin's ablest practical maker of war outside Russia, famed General Emilio Kleber...
...seemed that Benito Mussolini, who at latest reports had withdrawn to seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like...