Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 11 | Lennin's Word is Still Supreme through Russian

WORn NORD IS 1 STIll l RUSSIA 1 Although Dead for Three J Years Former Soviet J Leader Has Following rr r r By VICTOR W. W KNAUTH j United Press Staff Correspondent J MOSCOW Jan 22 United Pr PresS s Three years ago yesterday on a bitterly cold morning Nicolai Nicolai Lenin Leni died of apoplexy But lie he Is still master of Russia j Yesterday shops factories facto and offices throughout Russia Rusia were ere closed in remembrance whIle ti in t Moscow jong files ol of people man many of whom horn were Snot not bolshevists moved slowly through his tomb on Red Hed square to look on him as he helay helay lay in his red bier beneath a canopy of glass Even those who suffered severely from the upheaval which he managed recognize him now as a great historical figure I From his topped glass tomb he still controls soviet Russia Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps nowhere else itt in modern history his his- try tory has a VOIce from the dead and a hand nd that is stilled exercised a more potent direction Stalin and Kamensky y and other leaders still set their course by the the- chart which Lenin left them Quotations from Lenin make makeup up upa a fall fair half Of every important speech of every present leader header and nd more than a fall fair half when there Is debate bate or discussion A quotation from LenIn is held to be able There can be no more crush crush- in ing retort to n. n dIscussion than a mention of what Lenin said Or wrote The men who quote him Imo know what they the talk about and 1 every reference is is accompanied b bY of chapter er and verse To read a political address addres by a Russian Russian Rus- Rus I sian communist Is remarkable because be- be cause its most shattering and paralyzing paralyzing par par- J paragraphs sound almost like hike an extract from the cross cross- ind x of a circulating library Policies Poll Poll- cies are aro I put forward or discarded On em the basis of what Lenin said years ears ago age With MarX and Engels he forms Russia's supreme trinity nIl all dead but dominant His widow Madame which Is an assumed name like his own now works in the commissariat commis- commis sarat of education nd nd Is devoting herself to the moving pIcture plc- plc tune ture anti and the radio aU all over Russia His Us sister Mary Uliano which Isher is isher her name i is editor of the factory and workman n department of the communistic newspaper Pravda a unique journalistic venture which invites workmen e- e to their boss boss and sound their complaints His brother Alexander was executed b by the czars czar's secret po poUce as a revolutionist when Lenin Was Wasa a a. bo boy He then b became cama a revolutionist revo- revo himself anti and abandoned the name of UlIano It was too dangerOuslY dan dan- familiar to the lice But Vladimir under the name of L Lenin lived to complete com com- corn corn- piete the work for tor which his brother brothel died With him the line is ended He had no children Lenin although he smashed n. n so- so order to atoms and substituted socialism for property was only shot at once The only attempt attempt at- at tempt to kill him was made on August August Au- Au gust 30 1918 when len he was just beginning his regime by a mad Polish girl near Moscow She wounded him him slightly and was as promptly executed He was 54 years old when he died