“Congratulations were in order in Soviet Russia last week. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the famed N.K.V.D., secret police, and celebration of that organization’s success in ‘rooting out the enemies of the people'”
– and what sort of present is appropriate when celebrating the twentieth birthday of one of the most murderous organizations any police state could ever hope for? Well, we’re quite sure that we don’t know – but we do know what Joseph Stalin brought to the party – the names and addresses of two old Bolsheviks who had fallen from favor: Lev Karakhan and Avel Enukidze.
In 1937, Stalin put Trotsky on trial along with so many other loyal Bolsheviks – read about it…
