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...back home, announced a discovery: Soviet Russia had robbed Czechoslovakia of her independence. Houdek sent his $1,100 passage money back to the Czech delegation and issued a long statement of resignation at U.N. headquarters. Insisting that he was still a "socialist", he sent Joseph Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole world against...
...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
...third world held jubilee in Belgrade. There the Yugoslav comrades, led by Marshal Tito, cheered for the people's revolution and independent Communism, promenaded under the portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nowhere was there any picture of Stalin...
...Russia, the ducts of the young Soviet economy were all clogged up. Peasants were holding back food; managers of government stores and small factories cared little whether goods moved. Lenin reacted drastically by introducing the NEP (New Economic Policy). It restored a profit appetite to producers .and managers. "Enrich yourselves!" the peasants were told. But politically, Lenin's government remained Communist: after Russia got on its feet, the NEPmen were purged...
Politically, Tito's government, like Lenin's in 1921, remained Communist...