Word: trotskyism
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During the acute stage of the Moscow Trials, when one famed old Bolshevik after another was being convicted of "Trotskyism" and shot, newspaper cartoonists in many lands spontaneously got the same idea. They drew the Dictator facing his reflection in a looking glass and shouting: "Traitor, confess! You too are a Trotskyist!" Last week there were epochal goings on in Moscow which made such cartoons even more appropriate than during the Trials...
...Were fascinated by the spectacle of a contest between Trotskyism and Stalinism staged on the floor of the House between two of Britain's most extreme Left M. P.'s, respectively Communist Willie Gallacher and Independent Laborite Jock McGovern. Mr. McGovern demanded that His Majesty's Government take steps to secure the release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature...
...against any candidate was reported made anywhere in the Soviet Union. However, the official Soviet press said last week that at Leningrad a citizen named Golubev was given seven years for "swearing at candidates." He only swore and so was let off easily. An opposition speech would have been "Trotskyism" or "wrecking," for which the legal penalty is death...
Another 64 Soviet citizens were executed for "Trotskyism" last week. Dispatches passed by the Moscow censor described Joseph Stalin's hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election...
...districts were war councils of three, similar to those set up in the infancy of the Russian Revolution when a Red Army was being licked into shape by ex-Tsarist officers who had to be watched closely for signs of treachery. Stalin thus aimed last week at uncovering incipient Trotskyism or other heresies in his hitherto potent military commanders, who in future must get their orders countersigned by at least one other council member (probably a civilian) mainly interested in the welfare of the Communist Party...