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...week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about these problems . . . Lenin mentioned them but did not enlarge upon them ... As for Stalin, his opinions can be considered only negatively...
...grimmest ironies is that the Communists' lying assurances of their devotion to peace, democracy and progress have always found eager believers, while the Reds' truthful pinpointing of their own goals has been blandly ignored. Until it was too late, only a handful of people ever took seriously Lenin's statement that "the shortest route from Moscow to Paris is via Peiping and Calcutta." Yet who can today deny that he meant just what he said...
Hobnobbing with the great, M.G.M. ate tripe with Rodin, introduced Diaghilev to Picasso, was present when Clemenceau offered Claude Monet a seat in the French Academy (Monet refused). With such a star-studded cast, he can afford to throw away in a footnote the fact that Lenin once wanted to be an artist's model, gave up because he was too short...
There is no specific law against prostitution in the Soviet Union or in the Soviet satellite countries, because the founders of Soviet socialism, Marx, Engels and Lenin, held that prostitution was a capitalist evil which simply could not exist in their "new system of social justice...
...Dumbbell. Nowhere in Molotov's 3,000-word Pravda article was there mention of an earlier claimant to the same honor, whose name today is actually carved beside that of Lenin on the famous tomb in Red Square: Stalin. Since Stalin had long ago seen to it that few witnesses of those early Petrograd days remained alive in Russia, there was no one around to dispute with Molotov his actual relationship with Lenin. But the archives of Leninism still held their verdict. In a letter commenting on Molotov's work, the exiled Lenin wrote: "We have received...