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...after 1,000 years was the all but incredible story of the demonic little man who rose through the grating of a gutter to make himself absolute master of-most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th-century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute...
...bank of the placid Moskva, close to the Kremlin, a prodigious peacetime project was resumed. The project: the erection of the world's mightiest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, dedicated to Soviet Russia's founding father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
Eleven years ago the Russians first conceived the idea of surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
...German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where duty sends me. . . . The U.S.S.R. is my fatherland...
...butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed at the shabby efforts of the White Russians to survive as taxi drivers and waiters were fleeing...