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Only Joseph Stalin could have ordered this removal. As he did so he must have remembered Nikolai Lenin's praise of his article in 1905 on governing minorities, the first time he used the signature J. Stalin: "We have here a wonderful Georgian." Nor could he forget Lenin's final repudiation of him as too "crude and narrow-minded" four months before Lenin's death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers...
...Beloved Moscow!" said an officer of a citizens' battalion over the radio. "We think of the Red Square, and Lenin too. Never shall we permit the dirty Fascist hordes to touch the tomb." Spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky curtly answered a correspondent's query as to the moving...
...Lenin's remains: "Dead or alive, Lenin is always with...
...apparently thought that the defense would last a long time. Lenin's city had held out now under five weeks of siege. Stalin's city ought to be able to do as well...
...Lenin built the proletariat into the wide U.S.S.R.; Hitler has already broken it by conquering its richest fields, taking many of its factories, conquering many of its people. Now Stalin must salvage the remains. But in the process he was more than likely to be broken himself. In his desperation he was like the servant in the legend who made another retreat to another Samarra...