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Among morticians, the mummification of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has always been something of a mystery. By the time Soviet Embalmers Zbarsky and Vorobyev got to work, the body of the Russian revolutionary leader (who died in 1924) was already a decaying cadaver with brain missing and arteries cut, the result of an autopsy performed to prove that he had not been poisoned by Stalin. But Zbarsky and Vorobyev, employing secret methods, restored the corpse so that in the next 15 years millions of faithful Communists were able to file reverently past Lenin's body as it lay under...
...freely elected Constituent Assembly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Patriarch of Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...
...sycophantic congratulations last week, the kind that dictators always expect but are shrewd enough never to overvalue. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of his election as general secretary of the Party. No other leader in the world has been in power as long. Back in April 1922, in Lenin's declining days, when Stalin was forging his way to the top, Harding was President of the U.S., Lloyd George was Prime Minister of Britain, Raymond Poincaré Premier of France, and somebody named Luigi Facta ruled Italy-all of them long since dead...
...first half of the 20th century, observed Eisenhower, brought forth destructive conflicts that threatened the very base of Western civilization. "It seems almost as if the nations of the West have been, for decades, blindly enacting parts in a drama that could have been written by Lenin, prophet of militant Communistic expansion. This pattern of events, which points so surely to disaster, can be changed if only the peoples of the West have the wisdom to make a complete break with many things of the past and show a willingness to do something new and challenging...
...theme in this particular oration was that the Administration is leading America toward the Communist state as if Stalin & Co. were planning the moves. Playing tunefully on the chords of taxation, spending, human liberty, and sharing the wealth, General MacArthur bewailed how well the "blueprints of Marx and Lenin" were being implemented here. He turned the flail of generalization on foreign policy with the powerful, if inaccurate, charges that our foreign aid has not gained any converts and that we are leaving our boys in Korea to die while the enemy goes unpunished. The wildness and lack of documentation...