Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asian nationalist became Ho the Westernized Asian Communist. He absorbed the teachings of Marx and Lenin during two years of study at Moscow's Toilers of the East University, wrote a host of articles on colonial problems for Communist-front magazines. In 1925, he was assigned by the Comintern to go to Canton as an adviser to Soviet Agent Mikhail Borodin, then an adviser to the Chinese Nationalists...
...this is a far cry from the days of Lenin and Stalin, when Moscow was truly the capital of the world revolution. Housed in a dingy building just across the street from the Kremlin, the Comintern ran a shadowy, tightly organized network of agents and conspirators who carried Moscow's orders to parties far and near. In those days, the first duty of a Communist anywhere in the world was to support the Soviet Union. Stalin said: "A revolutionary is one who without arguments, unconditionally, openly and honestly is ready to defend and strengthen the U.S.S.R...
...chief proposal at the meeting. When both promises were broken, Ceausescu angrily ordered his men to walk out of the Budapest meeting and fly home. He thus brought on the most serious break in the Soviet bloc since Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito defected from the Comintern just 20 years...
...Human Community." Ceausescu hit hard from the outset. When Rumanian Reds went to Moscow in 1920, he declared, Lenin's Comintern showed "ignorance of the situation in our country," but nonetheless insisted on dictating Rumanian party policy-"though this was the inalienable right of the party itself." That, according to Ceausescu, laid the groundwork for Moscow's sellout of the Rumanian Reds during the early days of World War II-through the expedient of the 1940 Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact...
...Instead of appreciating the correctness of the struggle against the Hitlerites," Ceausescu said bitterly, "the Comintern criticized the Rumanian Communists for their activity against German aggression . . . Rumania, abandoned by all European powers, was actually thrown into the arms of the Hitlerite forces. Resistance to the fascist dictatorship included broad circles among the bourgeois parties and the royal palace...