Word: bolsheviks
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...settle in China when the Reds surprised him by kicking up a lot more dust in Korea. It now appeared that one of his basic attitudes toward Russia was that the dust of the 1917 Revolution would settle one of these days. He would not believe that that Bolshevik dust was politically radioactive...
TIME [July 17] gave the following definition of "The Cat in the Kremlin," that is, of Mr. Stalin:. "Better than any other Bolshevik he got hold of the essential principle of Leninism. The principle: anything for the sake of absolute power over men. Stalin is the No. 1 Communist not merely because he has the top job but because he himself is in a notably advanced stage of Communism . . . It is not true, as the Trotskyists and Socialists say, that he sneaked into power. He got it because he deserved it-by the standards deeply imbedded in Communist philosophy...
...Some people will think I'm a Bolshevik; others will think I'm anticapitalist...
...trying to build a modern economy in China, Mao tackled one of the century's most staggering tasks. Mao, apparently determined to avoid the mad haste of the early Bolshevik planners in Russia, seemed to mean to do the job gradually. The West, by doing hardly anything at all to fight Communism in Asia, made it easy for Mao to stick to his own timetable...
What with the current upper-class Bolshevik prosperity, it looks as though the Aragvi, together with the Ararat and the others, will all be packed with heavy spenders. As Stalin said in the '30s, "Life is getting easier, life is getting happier...