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...Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian firmness." At the entrance to the auditorium we passed under a third scrutiny. The footfalls of armed men and the clatter of weapons made the colonnaded hall sound like a barracks...
...stake was a simple misunderstanding between the authority of the Bolshevik regime and that of the Constituent Assembly. The soldiers hoped both bodies could find a way of uniting peacefully. So did the 40 delegates of the "Left" Social Revolutionaries who had decided to collaborate with the Bolsheviks. Lenin was later to describe them as "little fools...
Reward from Moscow. Last week Dolci won another kind of victory. Praising the "incisive vigor" with which Dolci had depicted the "inhuman conditions" in Sicily, Radio Moscow gratuitously announced that "Peace Partisan" Dolci had won the Lenin (formerly Stalin) Peace Prize. Rome's La Giustizia, organ of the Social Democrats, promptly appealed to non-Communist Dolci to reject an award which "comes from the executioners of the workers in Hungary." Dolci did not even hesitate. "I shall always accept, from anywhere, gifts that help my mission of good works," he said. He announced that the $25,000 prize money...
...kind of political power. According to an East German radio report, Marshal Zhukov sent out his aircraft to fetch Khrushchev's Central Committee henchmen to Moscow. In the final vote all joined to censure the "antiparty group" except Molotov, who stubbornly abstained. Molotov, the last living collaborator of Lenin; Kaganovich, the first sponsor of Nikita's career; Malenkov, Stalin's designated successor?all were shipped off to obscure posts in remote areas. The dictator jounced off to visit the Czechs. In Slovakia, he airily dismissed the anti-party group: "As they say, a scabby sheep got into a good flock...
...gone. The Indian museum-temple that he built to house his pre-Columbian collection will doubtless remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic for Communism (as in the case of the destroyed apotheosis of Lenin painted for Manhattan's RCA Building), they are enormously revealing at best-of peasant aspirations, Mexican heroes of history, the vigorous shapes and colors of the Mexican countryside...