Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When beardless, 32-year-old Leon Sedov, editor of a violently anti-Stalin Paris Russian-language paper, and son of the world's No. 1 exile, tuft-bearded Leon Trotsky,* died last week in Paris following an operation for an "intestinal obstruction." the world press was less interested in the death than in what heavy-hearted Trotsky...
...skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
...joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist Fyodorov and Hydrobiologist Shirshov, the Taimyr. Which ship got the dog Jolly, mentioned...
...Route Administration, who was on a third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
Soviet posters and pictures of Stalin were stuck up by the Communists. Under its architect-director, Manuel Sanchez Areas, the Propaganda Ministry proceeded to cry down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...