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Eleven-Year-Old. Red Russia's birthday was November 7. Sadly enough, it could not be celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled...
Today those ultra-conservative news organs, the London and the New York Times, sneak, though with reluctance, of Vladimir Ilvich Ulyanov Lenin as a man whom History will dub "The Great." But biographers would reflect: A child, he was one of the six children of a starved schoolmaster. A man, he lived for years expatriate and struggling outside the country he loved. A Power, he died paralyzed and speechless...