Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 22 years of hating Stalin, ex-German Communist Leader Ruth Fischer last week had got a load off her chest. The load: a 663-page, tightly packed book called: Stalin and German Communism, A Study in the Origins of the State Party.* The book was more than the heavy-going history its heavy Germanic title implied. It was also an intimate, encyclopedic exposure of the doubletalk and doublecrossing among top-level Communists...
Like many ex-Communists, Ruth Fischer tends to deify Lenin, heaping all the sins of Communism on Stalin. A typical Fischer anecdote: in 1925 Stalin had summoned her to Moscow. When she arrived her passport was taken away and for ten months she was a virtual prisoner in Moscow's flea-bitten Hotel Lux. Stalin left Moscow on vacation and Zinoviev plotted to get her safely back to Germany...
...pound the table, to cry that I must ... go home ... I fainted. When I came to, Bukharin was trying to feed me tea. 'Ruth,' he told me, 'you will go home. We are not terrorists against our own comrades . . .' I departed the same day." Stalin subsequently had Zinoviev and Bukharin shot, but for other reasons...
Lenin invented that kind of Communism, although Ruth Fischer prefers to blame it on Lenin's heir, Stalin...
Died. Emil Ludwig, 67, German-born biographer, playwright and political essayist, whose popular, sentimentalized big-name biographies (Goethe, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Stalin) set a fashion; of a heart ailment; in Ascona, Switzerland. The son of a rich Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig began his prolific writing career as a verse dramatist, switched to war correspondence and then to highly colored biography. A voluntary exile from Germany since 1907 (his books were later burned by the Nazis), he became a Swiss citizen in 1932, worked as a $1-a-year bond salesman for the U.S. Treasury during World...