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...court, Government prosecutors unveiled a picture of the late Leon Trotsky, a red flag, stacks of books and pamphlets by Trotsky, Lenin, Marx. These could be considered as determining the defendants' state of mind ruled Judge Matthew M. Joyce. Said he: "In his early days Hitler wandered around in a greasy old overcoat and was belittled." Government witnesses, most of them faded or redyed Trotskyites, declared that...
...Walther Nicolai, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis...
...description is accurate, dramatic, elegiac. Europe's breakdown "cannot be explained in terms of any single revolutionary formula." A series of sinister political geniuses, he believes, had something to do with it. "Lenin was its herald and pioneer. Hitler has made a great contribution. Mussolini and Stalin have played important roles. . . . But the revolt is not the handiwork of any single man or group of men. . . . Over this tremendous collapse . . . broods a strong element of fatalistic inevitability...
Stalin said: . . . These people, devoid of conscience and honor, people with a morale of beasts, have the impudence to call for the destruction of the great Russian nation, the nation of Plekhanov, of Lenin, of Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Gorki, Chekhov, Sechenov and Pavlov, Repin and Surikov, Suvarov and Kutuzov...
Russian men and women, who always hope for what they need and never seem to get it, would understand why even the name of holy Lenin followed Plekhanov's. Some say that in the square called Kazansky in Leningrad there are still echoes of the wild, terrifying shouts of Lenin's teacher, the philosopher Plekhanov, on the occasion of the first Russian popular demonstration...