Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, traveling on free passes, supplied with bounteous food & drink, and are given the best hotel rooms in the cap-ital-used by tourists in the summer-while they meet as the Parliament of Bolshevism. Last week this national picnic was extra special. The Soviet Union has a new Stalin Constitution and under it the deputies going to Moscow had been elected for the first time directly by all the voters whom they represent (TIME...
...there was any small, sour group of delegates who disliked Moscow's biggest party, awful warning not to spoil it had been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom...
Little explanation was needed. Obviously Dictator Stalin did not mean to let his pilots fight until Generalissimo Chiang gave Communists greater authority in the Chinese Government...
...Alexandre Barmine, the Soviet diplomat who was recently Russia's Charge d'Affaires at Athens, then broke with Moscow and denounced Stalin (TIME, Dec. 13), was being closely guarded in Paris last week by Socialists of the Second International and French detectives who stayed on duty day and night, fearing Soviet agents might kill or kidnap him. To British and French reporters Communist Barmine had told how he refused to dine aboard a Soviet steamer sent to Greece, suspecting the Captain had been ordered to shanghai him and take him back to Russia...
What chiefly turned him against Stalin, Barmine indicated, was "the systematic method with which Stalin has exterminated all those who were Lenin's associates, all those who helped make the revolution, all those who have built up Russia during the last twenty years...