Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fatherland. Der Führer won the plebiscite most recently held in Germany by 98.79%, but in last week's "early returns" Adolf Hitler was officially announced to be getting exactly 100% of the vote, thus for the first time drawing up level in popularity with Joseph Stalin...
Last June at Moscow's airport delighted Joseph Stalin gave a great bear hug and kiss to Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, the most magnificently bearded Bolshevik in all Russia (see cut). The achievements of the Soviet North Sea Route Administration under Hero Schmidt were then the most daring and courageous to the credit of Soviet science (TIME, June 14). Last week there stood to the credit of Professor Schmidt and his Arctic colleagues this year's fresh crop of achievements by Soviet North Pole scientists (TIME, Feb. 28), but the Dictator was not handing out any more hugs...
...Bolshevik Fedor Butenko quietly turned up in Rome. He explained that he had ducked out of Rumania because he had felt the hot breath of the Soviet Secret Political Police on his neck, and then provided a pretty good reason for their propinquity by going on to denounce Joseph Stalin and excoriate conditions in the Soviet Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have...
...From the description of conditions in Russia and of Stalin given by New Bolshevik Butenko, it is not difficult to understand why he figured it was best for him to skip. Excerpts: "I personally attended many of those treason trials in Russia. . . . I know better than anyone else the horrible tortures with which the Bolsheviks have taken the lives of many worthy and innocent persons. . . . The Bolsheviks promised the people of Russia full and complete liberty and autonomy. They even proclaimed the 'free right of the different regional nationalities to leave at their will the Soviet Federation.' Every...
...Stalin's Secret Police were trying to kidnap or kill me. That was probably because the Bolsheviks suspected that I could no longer bear to see their treachery [to Russia] and had decided to break forever with Bolshevism. In [Tsarist] Russia Joseph Stalin says with his pretense of infallibility, there prevailed 'the darkest terror of a police dictatorship.' . . . In reality never has the [Russian] working class suffered such privations as have been inflicted upon it in the period of so-called Socialization. ... I have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work...