Word: zinoviev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Ramsay MacDonald would have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...each of the 16 popped up in the box and cried: "I admit the charge against myself." Asked Prosecutor Vishinsky: "Did you, Zinoviev, organize the Terrorists?" "Yes." "Did you plot the death of Kirov?"- "Yes." "Did you organize the plan to kill Stalin?" "Yes. I am guilty of every charge in the indictment." A few minutes later two other prisoners became tangled in argument with each other as both were rapidly confessing. A third prisoner named Bakayev, a bearded figure in a khaki blouse, arose and loudly interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said...
...mean to write it!" cried Zinoviev...
Snorted Kamenev: "I did not! I had no intention of writing an article." "I admit that I was the one with the greatest guilt in Kirov's death," went on Zinoviev, gradually getting into better & better voice until at last he thrust the microphone impulsively away from him and burst into the full-throated oratory of his younger days as Bomb Boy. The basso-profundo keynote of Zinoviev's confession came as he boomed: "I went all the way from party power to counterrevolution and terrorism and actually to Fascism! For Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism! I abandoned...
Other prisoners brought out that Zinoviev had cried, "it is an honor to kill Stalin!" and had claimed this honor for his own wing of the alleged conspiracy...