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...memory of Lenin, however, is preserved not only by those who heard him preach the methods of a new government, but also in the history of modern Europe. Even the tremendous magnitude of American intervention in the World War did not wholly overshadow the decision on the part of the German Staff to convoy so dangerous a revolutionist back to his own country from exile. It was that event that marked the beginning of a new Russia, and the subsequent rise of governments elsewhere which felt the need of coping with a remodelled situation...
...Since several Baptist weeklies are appearing unmolested in Russia, the tirade of last week against "Rockefeller Bibles" seemed pointless, hysteric. Nonetheless it formed one of two major features in a new Soviet campaign to stamp out Religion, a thing so detested by the late founder of the Soviet State, LENIN, that he caused to be displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week's new anti-religious campaign was to release a series of articles by the most famed and heeded woman in Soviet Russia, a woman...
...emergency in every country of the world a strong man can seize power. The method is dictatorship and an organized minority. "The Bolshevik, minority," as Steffins said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system than if we made a successful regime...
Eleven-Year-Old. Red Russia's birthday was November 7. Sadly enough, it could not be celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled...
...senism is practiced by leading statesmen of the present Chinese Nationalist State as equivalent to a religion. Similarly the statesmen of Soviet Russia repose their faith in Leninism. The embalmed corpses of Dr. Sun and Nikolai Lenin are preserved in their glass-topped cases near Peking and at Moscow; and are periodically adored as the elements from which sprang, respectively, Chinese Nationalism and Russian Sovietism...