Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Kozlov, reminded him of the mayor of Leningrad), inspected an Illinois farm, a Pittsburgh steel mill. Through it all, Frol Kozlov plainly showed that he was having a good time, just as plainly took every opportunity to call for the kind of "peaceful coexistence" that means peace at Communism's price...
...should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry where Willy stands on Communism...
Product of Apostasy. Few of the Soviet world's captive minds have been as alone as Milovan Djilas'. Once a Tito favorite and Vice President of Yugoslavia, Djilas eventually convinced himself that Communism is the inevitable foe of revolutionary ideals. This disenchantment produced The New Class (TIME, Sept. 9, 1957), a dazzling indictment of Marxism as the opiate of the masses. An earlier product of his apostasy is Anatomy of a Moral, 18 casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin...
...long as he could. Djilas refused to believe that Communism must destroy basic human liberties; yet the insight proved inevitable. It came with the New Year of 1954. Under attack from party logicians. Djilas wrote in the title essay of this volume a savage modern morality story. Based on a real incident, the stinging fable tells of a blithe young actress who marries an aging, swashbuckling wartime hero, then finds herself brutally snubbed by the petted women of Yugoslavia's bureaucratic clique. In violently purple prose, Djilas lashes at this "sham aristocracy" which, "when not loafing about in their...
...force headquarters from sick leave, discovered that he had been superseded. The armed forces high command, headed by Fidel Castro's left-wing brother Raul, had appointed as operating chief of the air force Major Juan Almeida, a foot soldier who savvies nothing of planes, much about Communism and the party line. Saying that "those who love liberty cannot agree to any dictatorial system, especially Communism," Diaz Lanz announced that he was resuming command. The dispute went before Fidel Castro, and in the ensuing shouting match, Castro confirmed that Almeida would run the air force...