Foreign News: Three Red Mice

Stone walls do the Kremlin make. Not a building, as most people suppose, the Kremlin is Moscow's citadel, a triangle of high ground bounded by walls and bastions behind which cluster massive government buildings and multi-spired church towers. Last week the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party rose after sitting secretly inside the Kremlin with awful solemnity, supposedly shaping the destinies of Russia.

Actually Comrade Josef Stalin, as Secretary of the Party, was bending and shaping the Right and Left factions to conform to his "party line." Leaks from the Kremlin pictured Right Communists...

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