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...Stalin" means "steel," a name bestowed by Lenin as an honorable nickname upon Joseph Dzhngashvili, now Joseph Stalin...
Leniniana? As if to render the humbling of Leon Trotzky more abject, there came to light last week what purports to be an authentic "deathbed memorandum" by the great Lenin, warning Russian Communists against Joseph Stalin. This document, allegedly suppressed by M. Stalin since the death of Lenin (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), was given front page position last week by the New York Times and many another respected U. S. newsorgan...
...Lenin's Warning: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary [of the Communist Party] has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution...
...Signed) LENIN...
...Lenin nicknamed him Stalin ("Steel") and he thereupon dropped his true surname Dzhugashvili. -Since the old Orthodox clergy imparted to their village flocks faith in the miraculous nature of lightning, the editors of Bezbozhnik have had to begin their refutation of religion with such elementals as attempts to demonstrate that lightning is merely an electrical phenomenon and not an indication that the Creator is vexed...