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Elected as Delegates last week were several dead Soviet heroes, notably Nikolai Lenin. Also elected a Delegate was Comrade Ernst Thalmann, onetime Communist candidate for President of the German Republic, who now sits in a Nazi jail. Black Delegate Robinson will have about as much to do with shaping the policy of the Moscow Soviet as jailed Delegate Thalmann, but his election last week was elegant propaganda among U. S. Negroes...
...such circumstances just how does even the bloodiest state decide who is to be shot? Ever since the Soviet Government was established lists of undesirables have been kept. In times of emergency the Gay-pay-oo merely work down the list. Examinations are still guided by the rule of Lenin's famed Terrorist Executioner Latsis: "Do not look for clues in a case, whether the arrested man rebelled against the Soviets by word or by deed. First of all, you must ask him what class he belongs to, what is his extraction, what is his education and what...
...There can be no holier task than merciless punishment!" clarioned the Party newsorgan Izvestia, lapsing by a slip into pious language. All Soviet papers emphasized that as soon as Dear Friend Sergei's ashes were in their niche, Dictator Stalin mounted Lenin's Tomb beside the Kremlin wall, funeral music changed to the bray of military bands, and crack detachments of the Red Army and Gay-pay-oo troops swung past at the double while 64 airplanes filled the sky, approximately one for every Russian executed...
...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...
...bloody October 1917, barrack-like Smolny became the stronghold from which Bolsheviks defied and finally conquered Kerensky. In the ex-finishing school's assembly hall met the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets to proclaim the Bolshevik Government and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. For months Lenin and Trotsky lived and worked in schoolgirls' rooms at Smolny, signing death warrants, decrees and proclamations...