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Good Communists, following Lenin's doctrine, will try to salvage what they can even from the most disheartening setback. At Panmunjom last week, the Communist negotiators were making a fairly effective...
...Nikolai Lenin...
...mother's maiden name, for the baptismal "Jay Vivian" he had always hated. His college reading, and a 1923 trip to Germany "reeling from inflation, readying for revolution," turned him to Communism. "Few Communists," Chambers noted, "have ever been made simply by reading the works of Marx or Lenin. The crisis of history makes Communists; Marx and Lenin merely offer them an explanation of the crisis and what to do about it . . . It is in fact a total crisis -religious, moral, intellectual, social, political, economic. It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world...
...October 1941, as the Germans besieged Moscow, the mausoleum was closed and Lenin's body moved. On view again at war's end, Lenin appeared to have undergone a change for the better, causing Observer B. Krinitsky to exclaim: "Lenin looks much the same as many of us remember him." The reason for this startling rejuvenation, was suggested last week by Budu Svanidze, 57-year-old nephew of Stalin's first wife Katerina. Svanidze, who recently bolted a Soviet diplomatic job to marry a Hungarian girl, has written a book about life with Stalin, which France...
...dinner party in the Kremlin's underground shelters early in 1942, says Nephew Svanidze, Stalin was told that Lenin's body, since its removal, was deteriorating rapidly. Stalin expressed fears that if Lenin's body became completely decomposed the Russian people might take it as a bad omen: "If we find it is impossible to preserve the body, we'll have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body...