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COLD-BLOODED MURDERS

THE EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA WILL M. STALIN SURVIVE? DREAM OF WORLD REVOLUTION United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Dec. 29 Whether M. Stalin will survive the waves of cold-blooded murder, disguised as political executions, that are sweeping over Russia is the question being asked as a result of the news cf the secret trial and the execution of eight more eminent officials.

Kladderadatsch, Germany’s famous political weekly, publishes a cartoon entitled “Two Pyramids." It shows M. Stalin silting on lop of a glistening pyramid of skulls, waving scornfully

to Pliaroah, who, horror-stricken, has arisen from nis tomb and stands on top of ail Egyptian pyramid. M. Stalin says: ‘ You took 200 years to build your pyramid; I took only five to build mine.” • The cartoon refers to the recent executions of several famous Russian generals. That the cartoon applies equally to the latest "purge" offers a grimmer commentary on the violence of the Yet there seems no reason to suppose that M. Stalin's life has been threatened. Since the last group of Bed Arm\ officers were killed there has ;h* eii much speculation about the reasons for such wholesale murder. One of the most ingenious suggestions is simply that M. Stalin is suffering from persecution mania. However. M. Stalin's sanity would appear t" he less endangered than M. SI a liu's belief in Hie Communist dream Of world revolution.

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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 7

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COLD-BLOODED MURDERS Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 7

COLD-BLOODED MURDERS Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 7

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