Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time in Soviet history, J. Stalin had had himself put on the air, and all Russia could hear his thick and at times almost unintelligible Georgian accent as he tonelessly reeled off a speech so dry that even the Orator found it best to solemnly drink on the platform a total of five bottles of mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even...
...delegates in their exuberance had filed 43,000 amendments to J. Stalin's Constitution-not that they expected these to be adopted or even debated but just for the fun of boasting afterward back home that they had filed an average of 17 amendment's each. There was no doubt that the Congress would vote whatever the Dictator wanted in its entirety this week and J. Stalin, ignoring the 43,000 amendments, told the Congress crisply: "In ten days we shall have a new Constitution...
...hours of the Dictator's speaking time he devoted 40 minutes to reacting in his Asiatic way to foreign criticism of the new Constitution. It is a document in which many of the original world revolutionary principles of Lenin & Trotsky are toned down to dovetail into Stalin's practical scheme of encouraging Communist parties to unite with Socialist and other parties throughout the world. Reds thus may foment revolutions and capture administrations from within against which, as pure Communists, they could only have struggled from without but inevitably they themselves will become somewhat watered down and followers...
...beneath the Dictator's dignity last week to notice or answer Exile Trotsky, but Stalin did address himself to a different school of outside critics. Many of these are Socialists, Liberals and Democrats vaguely sympathetic with some Communist aspirations but on the whole suspicious. They know that Soviet propaganda has for months been grinding on the theme that "this is the most Democratic constitution in the world," but, although it grants universal suffrage for the first time in Russian history, they have wanted to know whether it also restores freedom to organize various political parties or leaves all power...
Without beating about the bush, Comrade Stalin settled this once and for all last week. "Yes," he said thickly and slowly, "the dictatorship of the working class will remain and the Communist Party will retain its leading position. If critics see these as defects from the standpoint of the Constitution, that is just too bad, because we Bolsheviki see advantages in them. In the U. S. S. R. there is no soil for several parties. There is soil for only one party, which can only be the Communist Party...