Secciones: Rusia, URSS, Centenario Revolución Soviética - Memoria Histórica - Prensa / Medios comunicaciónTítulo: ANIVERSARIO MUERTE LENIN - Articulo de NYT de 1924 Texto del artículo:
Hoy 21/1/06 hace 82 años que murió Lenin y en el web del
New York Times ha aparecido la crónica, que adjunto abajo, del corresponsal de este periódico de ese momento (21 de enero de 1924).
Es muy interesante y curiosa, sobre todo cuando
en la sección final (Internal Effects in Russia)
se pronostica que la ya abierta lucha entre
Stalin (al que llama "the chief machine leader",
o sea el jefe del aparato del partido) y Trotsky
se terminará tras este hecho, y se cita a Rykov y
Kamenev como los sucesores más probables.
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Lenin Dies Of Cerebral Hemorrhage; Moscow Throngs
Overcome With Grief; Trotsky Departs Ill, Radek In Disfavor
Soviet Congress In Tears Mass Hysteria Only
Aborted by a Leader's Brusque Intervention
BODY WILL LIE IN STATE
Is to be Taken to Moscow Today From Village Where Premier Passed Away.
KREMLIN WALL HIS TOMB
Washington Expects no Immediate Change in the Policy of the Russian Government.
By Walter Duranty
By Wireless to The New York Times
Moscow, Jan. 22 -- Nikolai Lenin died last night
at 6:50 o'clock. The immediate cause of death was
paralysis of the respiratory centers due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
For some time optimistic reports had been current
as the effects of a previous lesion gradually
cleared up, but Lenin's nearest friends,
realizing the progress of the relentless malady,
tried vainly to hope against hope.
At 11:20 o'clock this morning President Kalinin
briefly opened the session of the All-Russian
Soviet Congress and requested every one to stand.
He had not slept all night and tears were
streaming down his haggard face. A sudden wave of
emotion- not a sound but a strange stir- passed
over the audience, none of whom knew what had
happened. The music started to play the Soviet
funeral march, but was instantly hushed as Kalinin murmured brokenly:
"I bring you terrible news about our dear
comrade, Vladimir Ilyitch." [Nikolai Lenin was his pen name.]
High up in the gallery a woman uttered a low,
wailing cry that was followed by a burst of sobs.
- Kalinin Breaks the News.
"Yesterday," faltered Kalinin, "yesterday, he
suffered a further stroke of paralysis and ---"
There was a long pause as if the speaker were
unable to nerve himself to pronounce the fatal
word; then, with an effort which shook his whole body, it came-- "died."
The emotional Slav temperament reacted
immediately. From all over the huge opera house
came sobs and wailing, not loud nor shrill, but
pitifully mournful, spreading and increasing.
Kalinin could not speak. He tried vainly to
motion for silence with his hands and for one
appalling moment a dreadful outbreak of mass
hysteria seemed certain. A tenth of a second
later it could not have been averted, but
Yunakidze, Secretary of the Russian Federal
Union, thrust forward his powerful frame and with
hand and voice demanded a calm. Then Kalinin,
stumbling, read out the official bulletin.
"Jan. 21 the condition of Vladimir Ilyitch
suddenly underwent sharp aggravation. At 5:30 P.
M. his breathing was interrupted and he lost
consciousness. At 6:50 Vladimir Ilyitch died from
paralysis of the respiratory centers.
"Dated 3:25 A. M., Jan. 22
"Signed:
"Drs. OHUNK, [Lenin's personal physician and
chief of the Moscow Health Department, who gave
Lenin first treatment when wounded Aug. 30, 1918.]
"SEMISKO, [a close personal friend of Lenin and
Minister of the Health Department]
"FOERSTER,
"GTYE,
"OSIGOf,
"YEWISTRATOF.
"We propose," continued Kalinin, "that the
twenty-first day of January henceforth be set
aside as a day of national mourning." By a tragic
coincidence today- Jan. 9, old style, is a
similar Bolshevist holiday in memory of Father
Gapon's petitioners, massacred by the Czar's
troops in the courtyard of the Winter Palace on "Bloody Sunday," 1905.
"Do you agree?" questioned Kalinin.
A confused sound, half sob, half sigh, was the only assent.
- Whole Congress Gives Way to Grief
Kalinin tried to tell the funeral arrangements, but broke down completely.
Kamenief and Zinovief, equally unnerved, and
other members of the Presiding Committee had laid
their heads on the table and cried like children.
Even the daredevil Cossack leader Budyenny was
weeping unrestrainedly, while the delegates in
the body of the theater stood motionless,
sobbing, with tears coursing down their cheeks.
Finally Lashevitch, a member of the Central
Executive Committee of the Communist Party and
President of the Siberian Revolutionary
Committee, stepped to the speakers' rostrum. His
strong, square body in khaki uniform with dull
red facings radiated calm as in a firm voice he
announced that the members of the Presiding
Committee and a group of senior delegates to the
Congress would go tomorrow at 6 A.M. by special
train to the village of Gorky, 28 versts from
Moscow, where Lenin died to bring back the body
by train, reaching Moscow at 1 o'clock, and the
delegation would escort it to the "House of
Columns"- the former nobles' club in the center
of the city- where it would lie in state until
the funeral on Saturday in order that the
population might "freely pay their last respects to their dead leader.
So great was the continued emotion that no one on
the presiding committee thought to give the order
finally to play the Soviet funeral march until reminded from the audience.
Owing to a partial breakdown of wires, the result
of a recent abnormal snowfall, it appears that
the news of Lenin's fatal seizure did not reach
Moscow until shortly after 8 o'clock last night.
Lenin's wife, Nadjeduda Constantinova Krupshata,
was with him at the end. Kalinin and other
leaders left for Gorky about 9 o'clock, but the
news was not known even in the Government offices until late at night.
- Moscow Pubic Stunned.
The news of Lenin's death only became known to
the general public by special fly sheet editions
which appeared on the streets at 6 o'clock. It
was snowing heavily and as usual on a
comparatively few people about. The flags
decorating the public buildings are hung out from
the facade rather than hoisted on a mast above,
so the only half-masted red banner over the clock
tower of the Kremlin and the flags on the foreign
missions gave the sign of mourning.
Curiously enough, the newsboys did not shout the
tidings, but each speedily became the center of a
group asking "What is the news? Is it a telegram
from abroad, or what?" At the first glimpse of
the black bordered sheet some one cried: "Trotzky
is dead!" That it seems was the impression of
even several members of the presiding committee
of the Soviet Congress last night when a few
leaders left hurriedly in obvious perturbation,
so little did any one expect the sudden end of Lenin.
As the news became known it produced literal
stupefacation. The correspondent watched dozens
of people seize the sheet and stare blankly at
the huge headline. A spell of silent dismay that
overspread one group after another was perhaps
the most remarkable tribute to the dead leader,
for these were not Communists or workers, but
people of all sorts, poor and prosperous alike.
The correspondent heard a well-dressed man say dazedly to a tattered beggar:
"Lenin is dead."
"Didn't you know that?" was the reply with an
extraordinary mingling of scorn and pride. "All
the city knows it- I knew this morning."
The fly sheet announced that a special committee
had been appointed to make arrangements for the
funeral, consisting of Djerjinsky, President
Muralof, Military Governor of Moscow; Lashevitch,
member of the Supreme War council and President
of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee;
Voroshilof, Budenny's Chief of Staff, and also a
member of the Supreme War Council; Molotoff,
Zelinski, and Yenakidze. Their first act was to
order the closing of all theatres and places of amusement until the funeral.
- Blood Vessel Burst in Brain
An autopsy performed on Lenin's brain this
afternoon showed it flooded with blood. The
theory of the physicians is that the bursting of
a small blood vessel produced almost complete
paralysis of the respiratory system which was
followed an hour later by an extensive lesion causing instant death.
The house where Lenin died has a tragic history.
It is a broad low mansion with columns in the
Italian style in the center. It was bought a
score of years ago by Sava Morosof, self-made
billionaire chief of the Russian textile trust.
Morosof had liberal ideas, and after a bitter
dispute in 1905 with his brothers, who opposed
his plan for extended profit sharing with the
employees, killed himself. The house stands in
the center of a wooded hilly park through which
winds a mile and a half drive from the hamlet of
Gorky- the first village in Russia, thanks to
Lenin, to obtain electrification, upon which the
Bolshevist leader laid such stress for Russia's future development.
Lenin will be buried in the Kremlin Wall in the
Red Square where lie John Reed, Sverdlof, first
President of the Soviet Republic, and other
well-known figures of the Bolshevist revolution.
- Sidelights on Lenin's Character
Interesting sidelights on Lenin's character have
been given to The New York Times correspondent by
a young woman who worked for him as stenographer.
In the dark days of 1918 when Soviet Russia was
beleaguered on all sides by enemies Lenin
received the news that Trotsky had defeated the
Czechoslovaks at Sviask, near Kasan, on the
Volga. Lenin, she said, danced with glee like a child.
The first time she spoke with him was a little
earlier when during an important meeting he
noticed she kept looking up from her work to
watch the man of whom she had heard so much but
had never seen before. After the meeting Lenin came to her desk.
"Little Comrade," he said smiling, "here I am. We
must shake hands because we are going to work together."
Much more recently the girl put the Council of
Soviet Comissars' stamp in the wrong place above
Lenin's signature. She did not like to confess
her error, but when the document was sent back
for correction she took it to Lenin and said:
"You ought to have signed on the left under the
stamp as well as here on the right."
Lenin looked at her with twinkling eyes and replied:
"I sign wherever and as often as necessary, my
little comrade- to correct your mistakes."
- Internal Effects in Russia
What has been the internal effect in Russia of
Lenin's death? Only today the Pravda prints a
final furious attack by Stalin, the chief machine
leader, upon Trotsky, Radek, Preobrajenski and
other "insurgents." But the fact that the speech
which was delivered three days ago was allowed to
go abroad in the columns of the Pravda seems to
show that the Bolsheviki are less worried about
the split in their ranks than the machine's leaders would be willing to admit.
Nevertheless with Lenin dead and with Trotsky ill
and his supporters blamed and even in some cases
expelled from high positions, it is the general
opinion that Lenin's death will unify and
strengthen the Communist Party as nothing else
could do. No one who knows them both doubts that
Trotsky and Stalin will bury the hatchet over his grave.
Trotsky had a high fever all last week and left
for the Caucuses Saturday. It is doubtful whether
he will be able to return for the funeral, but
his friends say there is no possible doubt of his loyalty.
Lenin's successor as President of the Russian
Council of Commissars will be determined, it is
stated by the Congress of the Russian Soviet
Federation, which is unlikely to meet before
Monday, Rykov and Kamenef are the most probable candidates.
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