The Council of People's Commissars re-elected most of the members of the ruling "All-Russian Executive Committee" (hmmmm. . . . "All Russian") but did put in four new members. Three of them were:
Joseph Stalin. We know about him. He was appointed Minister of Nationalities.
Lev Kamenev. He was appointed Third Vice President, which says something about the absurd nature of Soviet government in that they had up to at least three VP's. One's enough.
His fate? Shot in the 1930s, of course.
Grigory Sokolnikov. He was appointed Minister of Finance.
His fate? Assassinated in prison in 1939.
Well, they served a monstrosity that used murder. Can we be surprised that they were murdered?
It might be worth noting that some of these figures, maybe all of them, were "rehabilitated", which didn't do them any good, but then they were pretty complicit with bringing anonymous death upon millions.
James Joyce's novel Ulysses was banned in the UK. I've never read it, but then its a book whose memory is mostly preserved by English professors with few actually reading it, much like a lot of what Hemingway wrote is. If tempted to read it, pick up Flannery O'Connor instead.
Germany's floating debt passed 1,000,000,000,000 ℛℳ.
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