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Avel Yenukidze, former secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party, intimate collaborator with Nikolai Lenin, generally regarded as having been Stalin's "political mentor" after Lenin's death, long an intimate family friend not only of Stalin but of his second wife, Alliluieva, who as a child had been dandled on Yenukidze's knee...
...Russian stamina, celebrating the election with which Russia has "come of age" (TIME, Dec. 20). Stalin, who is a native of the semitropical Tiflis region, did not himself turn out in the blizzard but sent 62-year-old Russian President Kalinin to stand snow-buffeted atop the tomb of Lenin in the Red Square, to receive officially "on behalf of Comrade Stalin" the shouts of acclaim...
...jail without warrant or due process of law, it was a first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924 and the expulsion of Trotsky, Stalin has driven and scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding. To Stalin as to his people this week's election is a milestone. Last year when he gave them their Constitution, its terms...
...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...