Word: stalins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...
...last two of these Old Bolsheviks to fall, Kamenev (brother-in-law of Trotsky) and Zinoviev, were executed by a Stalin firing squad after trial proceedings of such a nature (TIME, Aug. 31) that today they are a festering scandal in Communist circles throughout the world. The supreme Trotskyist who, according to the Moscow verdict, was the instigator of Communists who sought to kill Stalin, is significantly alive...
...Trotsky Must Die!" Stalin in 1929 decreed the expulsion of Trotsky from Russia to Turkey, where Trotsky arrived loudly protesting. Declared Volkswille, the official organ of the German Communist Party then: "Trotsky must die, but Stalin does not dare to get rid of him in Russia. . . . Therefore Trotsky is to be taken to Turkey, where it will be easy to murder...
Since this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...
...kulaks. At only 19, this brilliant little Jew was already in the custody of Tsarist police as a revolutionist of mark. Bronstein's various escapes from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name of his last jailer, "Trotsky...