RUSSIA: Bomb Boy Back

Because the great Leon Trotsky, creator of the Soviet Red Army, has dared to oppose Dictator Josef Stalin, he is now in remote exile on the border of Chinese Turkestan (TIME, Jan. 30). Exiled at the same time were 50 oppositionists, 38 of whom at once recanted and protested their absolute submission to the Dictator. Last week these recanted trucklers to Josef Stalin were allowed to return from exile and were readmitted to the Communist Party. Chief of the three dozen is Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and onetime...

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