Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
...Russian show, with its 15-foot statue of Stalin-a bunch of fresh red roses at his feet-was only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp...
...Joseph Stalin issued a birthday proclamation: "[Moscow represents] the liberation movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...
...city as a whole, as well as the fire department and the subways, was awarded the Order of Lenin. The trolleys were presented with the Order of the Red Banner, while the Stalin Water Supply Station received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class. Pilgrims from all over Russia and foreign emissaries from such diverse capitals as Rome and Bangkok were on hand. From all over Russia came birthday presents to the revered capital-gleaming new trolleys, carloads of cabbages, carrots, tomatoes and flour, which were sold in the street at unusually low prices...
...Stalin was something of an enigma and Churchill, says Reilly, was completely understood only by Fala, the President's photogenic Scottie. Churchill once sent Roosevelt a dozen records of his favorite speeches. They were smashed when Secret Service agents became suspicious of the package. "I told F.D.R. of his loss," Reilly reports, "and he resigned himself to it rather easily...