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...virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
Their Indian friends suffered ideological shock. Disturbed and dismayed, Nehru summoned his cabinet in emergency sessions. Impatiently he cabled his ambassador in Peking, bearded Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, who is proud of resembling Nikolai Lenin and who has an unshakable belief that India can get along with Lenin's disciples. Panikkar did not answer for two days. Then he belatedly confirmed the news, lamely explaining that he had first heard of it through the papers...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
Four Anterooms. Pyongyang may have a Korean name, but it was a Russian-run city. In every house, shop and office hang pictures of Stalin and Lenin. The biggest hotel in Pyongyang is known simply as "the Russian hotel." For two full blocks around the Russian embassy in Pyongyang every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which...
...practice that Communist Party members get more and better food, housing, clothing and recreation than the mass of the people, who live in darkness because they know not Marx. Anyone who suggests that Communists live like ordinary people is guilty of a heresy called egalitarianism, upon which the great Lenin himself pronounced anathema...