Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Krestinsky, speaking and gesturing as though he were appealing to an invisible Stalin behind the glowing cigaret, declared: "I am not guilty. I have been a member of the Bolshevik Party from 1903 until my arrest, and I believe that I am, still a Bolshevik. I did not speak the truth before my examiners.† I lied, of my own free will. I will tell the truth now so that it will reach the ears of the Soviet Government heads. I am not a Trotskyist...
Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Department of the U. S. S. R. for the United States...
...Stalin, it came out last week, was escorted by Yagoda from Moscow to Leningrad to investigate Kirov's murder, now confessed to have been the work of Escort Yagoda & accomplices whose confessed main objective was to kill Stalin. Yagoda always personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else...
...editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably. "Our program," confessed the Heir of Lenin, "was greater freedom for the kulaks; greater freedom for the private traders and foreign concessions; and slower industrialization...
...Stalin's way. Today that equals Death...