Disciple Departs
If Lenin has become a kind of Communist Christ, Walter Ulbricht, 77, is the self-appointed St. Peter. The oldest and most durable of the Soviet bloc party leaders, Ulbricht alone can lace his speeches with references to what he personally heard Lenin say, and he has used his disciple status to lecture the Soviets and East Europeans interminably on the need for political orthodoxy and extreme caution in dealing with the West. Last week Walter Ulbricht lost the bedrock of his power, the leadership of the East German Communist Party,...
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