Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, received Mr. Bullitt as the first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Entering upon his job there with high hopes of cultivating real U. S.-Russian friendship, the Ambassador experienced a long series of personal disappointments and disillusionments. In 1936 he got himself transferred to Paris, likes it much better...
...Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, wishing her "good health and many more years of fruitful work...
Regarding your reply to Michael Fanning about the "Irish Volcano" [TIME, Feb. 6, said: "Tom Mooney's grandparents emigrated to the U. S. from County Mayo, Ireland. If that makes their grandson a Russian, Stalin is a Dutchman...
...Mooney's grandparents emigrated to the U. S. from County Mayo, Ireland. If that makes their grandson a Russian, Stalin is a Dutchman...
...birth rate is artificially stimulated by long northern nights, a ban on abortions (abortion was legal in Russia from 1920-36) and cash prizes for prolific mothers. Her death rate is artificially stimulated by purges, famines and Manchukuoan border incidents. What the balance is will now be determined.* Dictator Stalin believes that there are 3,500,000 new Russians every year. Sent out last week to verify this were 400,000 census takers, armed with 16 questions apiece, conveyed by reindeer, camels, sleds cars, airplanes...