Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely enthusiastic participant last week was Dictator Joseph Stalin at the celebration by massed Communist delegations from all over Russia of the tenth anniversary of the founding in Moscow of the Union of the Militant Godless. This unprecedented Jubilee of Godlessness could only be compared to that celebrated by Bolsheviks in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Legalization in Russia of Abortion...
When it comes to religion Joseph Stalin is somewhat wistful. Although never actually ordained a priest, he was a theological student in his youth. He is the only Dictator alive today with a thorough knowledge of the contents of the Bible. Instead of being cremated, as tradition decrees for Communists, the Dictator's beloved second wife lies buried by his order in the consecrated ground of a historic Moscow convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932). Although active profession of atheism is the badge of a Communist, Joseph...
...Stalin has uttered officially such lukewarm words as these: "The Party cannot be neutral toward Religion because Religion is something opposite to Science...
...Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
...Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee was George V's particular friend and protege George II, the newly restored King of Greece (TIME, Nov. 18). His Majesty was detained in Athens because the former Greek Dictator, Field Marshal George Kondylis, threatened to lead a coup...