Monday, Feb. 18, 1935

Threats to Stalin

In Manhattan last week Joseph Stalin's sharp Biographer Isaac Don Levine produced what he said was a copy of Soviet official minutes taken at the last session of the Communist Party Congress in the Kremlin Palace.

These minutes, declared Biographer Levine, reveal that among notes passed up by Party delegates to Chairman Lazar Kaganovich while Dictator Stalin was on the platform were these:

"It won't be long before we hang you all."

"Only by exterminating the leadership of the Communist Party is it possible to liberate the country."

"When will you stop betraying the working class?"

Far from intimidated, Chairman Kaganovich read out some of these unsigned threats and protests, then slashingly rebuked the scribblers. Dictator Stalin meanwhile put OGPU handwriting experts on the trail, later caused two Communist Congress delegates to be flung into prison for their rash attempt at scribbled free speech.

"No Government in the world," noted Biographer Levine, "is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship."

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