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Standing beside the Tomb of Lenin, Joseph Stalin used to watch thousands upon thousands of bright-cheeked Red soldiers, male & female, marching smartly past Moscow's Red Square on May Day. No Russian or foreigner who ever saw the Red Army on these occasions failed to be impressed by its might...
...Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov, whose bumping-off in 1934 gave the world a new word: purge. To succeed Kirov, Stalin picked chubby little Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, who up to that time had been a fairly inconspicuous Soviet administrator. He had picked up the Order of Lenin for successfully organizing a motorcar industry in the Nizni-Novgorod district. By the time Kirov was shot, Andrei Zhdanov, 38, had become a member of the Party's Central Committee and he had the ear of Stalin. No sooner had Stalin made him Party secretary of Leningrad than he proved...
...side. To Editor Cachin was assigned the delicate mission of seeing that French money found its way into Editor Mussolini's pants. But afterwards, in 1920, on a trip to Moscow, Marcel Cachin became a convert to Communism. And like most converts, he became more Communist than Lenin...
...Sophie Frankle. The two of them built their own nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Soon after their marriage they had a year in Russia, where Gropper worked briefly on Pravda (official organ of the Communist Party), learned to call electric lights "Lenin lamps," had a grand time. Gene, their elder boy, was born in Paris on the return trip. To the New Masses went a cartoon by Artist Morris Pass of the proud father wheeling Gene in a baby carriage. Caption: "Made...
...Russian film which demonstrates that Soviet directors can still handle people in masses with a realism and a feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...