Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year 1956 was a complicated time in the Soviet-American relationship. Earlier that year, in a secret session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev had delivered a three-hour speech debunking Stalin. He had been, said Khrushchev, a treacherous, lying, murdering paranoid. But the Hungarian tragedy demonstrated that Khrushchev was not going to dismantle Stalin's empire...
During the 15 momentous years that he has ruled the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev has reaped an abundant harvest of medals, decorations and titles. General Secretary of the Communist Party, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Marshal of the Soviet Union are only a few of the positions he occupies. But Brezhnev is now 72, and his long absences due to mysterious ailments have set foreign analysts and Soviet citizens alike speculating whether he is actually in full command. Last week, on the first occasion that the party chief has granted a personal interview with U.S. journalists...
Brezhnev still has the will and the energy to do those enervating things that national leaders have to do. He meets foreign visitors?U.S. Senators, Communist delegations, Asian and Arab ministers, bankers and industrialists?almost every day. He participates in uncounted party and government conferences. Perhaps most trying of all, he not only delivers long public speeches and reports, but sits through interminable speeches by others...
...said in Moscow that he also has bad days, as old men do. There has been speculation about why he has not retired voluntarily and honorably, or been replaced by a younger and healthier man. One reason is that Brezhnev appears genuinely popular inside the huge Communist Party bureaucracy. He is a master politician, able executive and respected leader of a world power. He is considered fair in his dealings with the party, loyal to his political allies, responsible and cautious in his policies, and reluctant to purge his colleagues. In party terms he is a centrist and he collects...
...ruthless leader of Kampuchea's Communist Party. Under his genocidal rule in the past four years, Cambodia's major cities have been abruptly emptied and, by some estimates, up to a quarter of the country's 8 million people may have been slaughtered. He apparently escaped the fast-moving Vietnamese divisions, which were accompanied by 18,000 dissident Cambodian Communists, and was reported to be leading his army's last division near Siem Reap and the ancient temples of Angkor...