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...spot he loved best was the place where he had so often shown himself, like any citizen in his rough tunic, his pants tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
Bluster. He won many skirmishes in the Revolution because he had neither fear nor prudence. When he completed a mission he would come with a delighted grin to his commander and say: "Whom do I strike next?" But he had no understanding of anything beyond action. "Comrade," Lenin once asked him, "Suppose you were asked what you were fighting for, what would you say?" Budenny answered: "Comrade, I would say that Lenin knows...
Directly, the unveiled tank, which was mounted on a truck, rolled off on the first leg of its journey to the battle line. Behind it others rolled, named VOROSHILOV, KARL MARX, LENIN, TIMOSHENKO, BUDENNY...
From where he sat he could see portraits of Marx and Engels and a pale death mask of Lenin. But the Russian past all seemed very far away now-even the recent past in which he had consolidated his own dictatorship by executing hundreds of old friends and Old Bolsheviks. He was a hard man, worthy of the name of steel. He could feel it in himself. If anyone could come through the great historic grinding in which he now found himself, he could...
Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...