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Malenkov's star was rising again, this time in a clear sky. In January last year, Radio Moscow proclaimed: "True pupil of Lenin, comrade-in-arms of Stalin ... on your 50th birthday we wish you, dear Georgy Malenkov, many years of health." Georgy Malenkov had arrived...
...edited an illegal sheet called Pravda, thereafter was Stalin's ever-loyal lieutenant until his death. Elected a Polit buro alternate in 1921, aged 31, the youngest ever. Premier 1930 to 1941 Minister 1939 to 1949. Uninspired, but crafty and stubborn negotiator. Irritated underlings call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file clerk in Russia." Behind every plodding step however, lies a record of a difficult task efficiently performed. Is the last of the Old Bolsheviks, the revolutionmakers, left in the innermost circle. Married to a Jewess (who has U.S. relatives...
Joseph Stalin never gave up killing people. It was always necessary in the kind of regime he ran. He killed until he died. He killed methodically, almost as if to say: nothing personal, merely inevitable. Or was that all? "Stalin's . . . spite," wrote Lenin, ". . . is a most evil factor in politics." Said Trotsky: "He is a kind of opportunist with a bomb." In the outer world, in those days, many intellectuals excused Stalin's methodical slaughter as a necessary first step toward a Communist paradise on earth...
...habitual doodler who doodled wolves, girls, castles and the word "Lenin" on paper pads during conferences and interviews, Stalin gave the impression of impassive calm. But a Tito aide once saw him angry: "He trembled with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before...
...While Lenin masterminded the revolution from Geneva and Trotsky formed the first Workers' Soviet in St. Petersburg, Stalin wrote fiery pamphlets in Georgia: "Russia is like a loaded gun, at full cock, ready to go off at the slightest concussion. Rally around the Party Committees . . . Only they can lead us in a worthy manner." Thus early he revealed his bent: control through committees. But what committees! "Our committees ought at once to set out to arm the people . . . to set up regional centers for the collection of arms, to organize workshops for the preparation of ... explosives." The revolution failed...