Word: zetkin
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...stage, which was bedecked with the red trappings of Communism admixed with a strange assortment of banners, sat a select committee of Soviet Grand Dames, and among them, the Priest Bukharin. There was Klara Zetkin, whose kindly face is but a mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov...
...brave woman who died for the workers, and I knew I was right." Then, with greater strength, she added fervently that it had come to her that she must dedicate her "own girl child to the same life of sacrifice as Rosa Luxembourg." She handed the baby to Klara Zetkin, who, with the child in her arms, spoke of Rosa Luxembourg* as "my martyred comrade, whose name this child will bear henceforth, that her memory may remain fresh and living among us." Tears sprang to the eyes of many a young girl in the audience, the electric current of emotion...