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...party as the U.S.'s grandmotherly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 71, and overblown Dolores Ibarruri, the famed La Pasionaria of the Spanish Civil War. And there were men whose hands are bloodied by countless executions, like Hungary's sad-eyed Janos Kadar and Argentina's fat Victorio Codovilla, who once was Stalin's top agent in Spain, and such party hacks as France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, both symbols of failure from countries that, scarcely a decade ago, seemed on the brink of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: One-Third of the Earth | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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