Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Paris flat last week Mme Dmitri Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result...
Among Exposer Navachine's audience would have been perhaps Statesmen Herriot, Laval and Blum themselves, certainly many of their friends. Soviet Russia has, in all western Europe, only one treaty-ally, the French Republic. Therefore, since Comrade Navachine, who had sold France on Stalin in the first place, was now going to try to unsell France on Stalin, the situation in which Paris agents of the Ogpu found themselves was "vital to the Soviet Fatherland...
...Izvestia and special correspondent for Trotsky?" Red Romm: "Yes." "Communist Al Smith." The Al Smith of the Soviet Union is Leon Trotsky. He might have been and Communists in numbers running very high think he ought to have been and should be Dictator of Russia today instead of Stalin. Keynoted Trotsky, who issued a fresh statement every few hours in Mexico on the Moscow trial: "Stalin's crimes put Caesar 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...
...been instances when . . . the victim's children were tortured before his eyes-a more terrible ordeal for the father than any that could be inflicted on his own body."Eugene Lyons is a thoroughly professional journalist, but Isaac Don Levine is an avowed, outspoken partisan of Trotsky against Stalin...
...Moscow from Manhattan last week was to charge that the Red Army, which is supposed to have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Communism during all these years, has in fact now become disgusted with the way Communism is working in Russia, and has in recent months obtained under J. Stalin mastery of the frame-up and third-degree apparatus of Justice in Russia. According to Mr. Levine, the New Generation represented by the Red Army now "regards the Old Guard Leninists as the greatest obstacles in its path...