Word: leninism
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Dear comrades and friends . . . The steel-like unity and monolithic unity of the ranks of the party constitutes the main condition for its strength and might. Long live the great and all-conquering teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin...
...heart of the comrade and inspired continuer of Lenin's will, the wise leader and teacher of the Communist Party and the Soviet people-Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin-has stopped beating...
...world awoke next day to learn that his successor already had stepped into office (see below), that Stalin's body was in the hands of the embalmers (the same who mummified Lenin). His funeral date had been set, and the Supreme Soviet had been summoned for an emergency session. The dictator was dead, but dictatorship continued; the efficiency of all this suggested to the outside world that Stalin may have been dead even before the first announcement of his illness...
...Lenin was surely right when the end he sought for was to build his heaven upon earth and to write the precepts of its faith into the inner fabric of a universal humanity. He was surely right, too, when he recognized that the prelude to peace is a war ... It is, indeed, true in a sense to argue that the [Soviet] Russian principle cuts deeper than the Christian since it seeks salvation for the masses by fulfillment in this life, and, thereby, orders anew the actual world we know...
...anti-fascist school he was known as the "feudal bourgeois"-too emotional and soft-and was referred to Lenin's words on the subject of human feeling: "I know nothing which is greater than [Beethoven's] Appassionato; I would like to listen to it every day. It is marvelous, superhuman music. I always think with pride-perhaps it is naive of me-what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people...