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...reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part of it lay in Western civilization's failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record...
Messrs. Smith and Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
...From the time of Lenin . . . every Communist has been drilled to believe that in the world there are only two divisions of mankind: the Communists, and all the rest. . . . When the Communist sings 'The international Party shall be the human race' he means what he says and he expresses his view of the process by which alone he thinks that ultimate difference [between peoples] can be overcome...
...Implacable Struggle. On the atomic bomb, as on every other vital issue, Moscow is governed by Lenin's dictum: "Victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, persistent, desperate life and death struggle: a struggle which requires persistence, discipline, firmness, inflexibility and concerted will power...
...friends of Lenin would not think of a contest for personal power. . . For [them] to confess that they had taken part in a struggle for power was to say that they were the victims of a struggle for personal power. . . Their message was for history. . .It deceived Henry Yagoda who was entrusted to prepare the confessions. . . . But the Khozyain was not deceived. . . . He, too, is an Old Bolshevik. . . . We know that he acted immediately because next day the trial was all confusion and the day after that . . . the Old Bolsheviks had become Traitors...