Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lenin's favorite ideas was that if 130,000 landlords could rule Tsarist Russia, 240,000 determined revolutionists could rule a Soviet Russia. Lenin's efforts before the revolution were to build up a professional revolutionary machine experienced in organizing workers and able to dodge the police. Almost all the big revolutionists of necessity lived abroad; Stalin and Molotov were the only two who were able to brag in later years that they stuck it out for the most part inside. At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic...
...OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they were all the same. Comrade Stalin recognized their function when, one day, he viewed that part of the walls of the Kremlin from which Tsar Ivan IV watched his enemies executed, was reported as saying: "Ivan the Terrible was right. You cannot rule Russia without a secret police...
...Robert Ley who made the declaration. The theory of Germanic superiority lies at the nub of Nazi doctrine, was the hypothesis of Mein Kampf. But until last week no responsible German had ever talked right out for the world to hear about Germany's heaven-given right to rule. Dr. Ley did. In a speech in conquered Lemberg, German Poland, he said...