Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army must not be confused with bourgeois armies, which are really repressive. Explained Yudin: "In capitalist states the army is used for home oppression. It has an introvert function. But in the Soviet Union this introvert function is no longer necessary, as the enemies of the proletariat have been liquidated here. So in the Soviet Union the army has a purely extrovert function...
...Democracy is sometimes called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship of the proletariat in fact is democracy in action. ... As long as dictatorship acts in the name of the people for the welfare of the fatherland, it is sacred. When it acts against the people, it is criminal. In Russia, our regime is one of democratic dictatorship...
...artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to come up and stand beside him. Down on the streets, the proletariat clustered around cheap food stands, dance bands and vaudeville shows...
...learned Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (editors: Drs. Edwin Seligman and Alvin Johnson) learnedly observes: "Significant from a sociological and economic standpoint is the fact that . . . smaller lotteries . . . are patronized largely by the proletariat, whereas the patrons of the [bigger] . . . lottery loans are drawn chiefly from the middle class." Unless the Encyclopedia erred, which was indeed conceivable. Soviet Russia last week definitely moved from the proletarian to the bourgeois way of life...
...dying Lenin's death by administering poison. More routine charges: Stalin is a traitor to the revolution and to Communism because 1) he seized control of the Bolshevik Party machine and substituted ward politics for the inspired dynamics of proletarian revolution; 2) he turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into a totalitarian state; 3) he declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken with Stalin and repudiated him; 4) he issued history a false passport by revising the entire record of the Russian revolution, eliminating Trotsky and making himself the military...