Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mamil Dmitrievich Orakhelashvili, an Old Georgian Bolshevik and Stalin intimate, onetime Vice Commissar for Education...
...Significance-In effect Abel Yenu-kidze was the Louis McHenry Howe of the Kremlin under Stalin. That he and such another old friend as Orakhelashvili, as well as so great a Soviet statesman as Karakhan, should be liquidated left the world but two plausible hypotheses to choose from: either Stalin is madly destroying his best friends, or they, like Trotsky, have come to believe that Stalin has betrayed the Revolution. In any case something is very rotten in Russia...
Over 1,000,000 citizens of Moscow left their homes one sub-zero day last week, turned out in a driving snowstorm to march across the Red Square shouting "Hurrah for Stalin!" They carried heavy wood & canvas floats and tall banners which they struggled to keep Moscow's wintry blasts from whipping from their hands. It was a magnificent show of Russian stamina, celebrating the election with which Russia has "come of age" (TIME, Dec. 20). Stalin, who is a native of the semitropical Tiflis region, did not himself turn out in the blizzard but sent 62-year...
...tabulating returns from 130,000 voting districts, of which 40,000 have no telegraphic or even rail connection with Moscow, went ahead with feverish activity. It was belatedly announced that 94,138,000 Russians registered to vote and that at least 96.5% had voted. All votes counted for the Stalin regime, since only Stalinist candidates ran, and Soviet officials boasted that not a single ballot had come to light which seemed to have been scratched. On the contrary, millions of ballot envelopes when opened were found to contain not only the voter's name signed or printed but also...
According to Pravda, official newsorgan of the Communist Party, the counting of ballots cast in the Stalin District on the outskirts of Moscow, where the candidate was Stalin himself, was an occasion tense with emotion. "The first envelope is slit!" exclaimed Pravda. "All eyes are directed to it. The chairman takes out two slips- and reads loudly and distinctly 'COMRADE STALIN...