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...policy was an important element in provoking Tito's defection, and may be largely responsible for the great decline in Communist voting strength in Western Europe. Zhdanov's funeral, at which Premier Stalin played a tear-stained role as pallbearer, was one of the most elaborate since Lenin's in 1924. His death certificate was signed by three of the doctors caught up in last week's purge...
...enormously self-willed but rarely self-centered. In his books and out of them, the great author fought the good fight against bad schools, bad prisons, bad laws and the bad byproducts of the Industrial Revolution. With Bernard Shaw, Johnson insists that this makes Dickens a social revolutionary. Lenin, for one, did not agree and once stomped out of a dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth, because he could not stomach Dickens' "middleclass sentimentality." It is probably true to say, as other critics have, that Dickens had an alert social conscience; he knew what he was against...
...assume that others would not yield to the temptation science is now placing in their hands." Then Truman moved carefully to the climax of his report - a climax which he, personally, had suggested, without benefit of speechwriters : "There is something I would say to Stalin: You claim belief in Lenin's prophecy that one stage in the development of Communist society would be war between your world and ours. But Lenin was a pre-atomic man, who viewed society and history with pre-atomic eyes...
...after the Communist Revolution. In the '20s, he assisted in the liquidation of the kulaks and the mass deportation of millions of Ukrainian peasants; in the second Five Year Plan (1933-38), he bossed the excavation of Moscow's subway stations. His reward was the Order of Lenin and one of the party's toughest assignments: to stamp out the lingering embers of Ukrainian nationalism...
Another infrequently seen notable, who had missed the last seven anniversary parades, also appeared: Joseph Stalin easily climbed 40 steps to the podium atop Lenin's tomb, looked hale as he saluted the crowd but said nothing. The parade lasted only 25 minutes: the usual air show was weathered out, and only old-model tanks and rocket guns were displayed. Explanation: those who wage cold peace like to keep their hot weapons out of sight...