Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This campaign of vilification was of course not "warmongering," in Moscow's eyes. Only "capitalist imperialist gangsters" could be warmongers, and they, it seemed, stretched their claws everywhere. Russia's Andrei Zhdanov had called for ideological as well as political resistance to the U.S. Last week the French Communist paper L'Humanité took it from there. Introducing a special anti-American cultural section to run Wednesdays and Fridays, L'Humanité cried: "America degrades the spirit." It got down to cases...
Under the "bullheaded premier" Wang Anshih, this took the form of state capitalist enterprises which wrecked small business, taxes which deprived farmers of their land and a totalitarian form of military conscription. Su fought them all, with varying success. Among his achievements was the founding of the first public hospital in China and the engineering of an adequate water supply for the city of Hangchow...
...Yugoslavs with an earlier story) had visa trouble, and only in Yugoslavia were people unwilling to talk. In Helsinki, Attwood got nowhere with some Communists until he mentioned the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild; the Finns were first astonished ("How can you belong to a union and work for a capitalist paper?"), then friendly...
...revival of the Communist International. For Senators and Representatives, who might not see their way clear to vote billions for purely humanitarian purposes, may be swayed by allusions to the "Red menace." But the "official party line." far from supporting the Marshal Plan, has damned it as a vile Capitalist plot...
Joseph Stalin issued a birthday proclamation: "[Moscow represents] the liberation movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...