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...calculating upon months. But time works in our favor, and we are now witnessing the strengthening of the Communist movement in practically every country of the globe." One fine, starry night the 500 delegates trooped into Red Square at Moscow and grouped themselves around the jet black tomb of Lenin. To the top of the tomb went Kalinin, the peasant-President of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets, and there he extolled the greatness of the dead Russian leader. More than 15,000 people assembled to witness the impressive scene...
After Kalinin had spoken, the delegates were permitted to descend into the tomb and view the body of Lenin through the heavy glass cover of the red coffin. Outside the proletariat sang revolutionary songs...
...program of the Congress: 1) Lenin and the Communist International, 2) activities of the Executive Committee and tactics, 3) world economic position; 4) future policy, 5) tactics relating to the labor federation movement, 6) national questions, 7) questions of organization, 8) propaganda, 9) Fascism, 10) questions about the intelligentsia, 11) economic position of Russia, 12) question of the peasants, 13) Young Communist movement, 14) Communist aid organization, 15) questions of different sections, 16) question of coöperatives, 17) election of the Executive Committee and President...
...Speech (TiME, June 2) began. Signer Insabato, Peasants' Party, offered the loyal cooperation of his following with the Government; Signer Mancini, Maximalist (Communist) "straffed" Fascismo,? said the country was "disconcerted, oppressed and humiliated." Another Communist, forgetful of the Red hero's death, rose and cried "Long Live Lenin!" Pandemonium ensued, but was quickly squelched...
...Caucasus, Sunday is called Lenin Day because the great Red Chief was buried on a Sabbath (TIME, Feb. 4). A report that Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...