Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years before, a badly shaken and bellicose Nikita Khrushchev had flown into Warsaw only to find that he had been outmaneuvered: the new boss of Poland-which had come so close to open rebellion against the Soviet Union -was none other than Wladyslaw Gomulka, an out-of-favor Communist whom Stalin had once arrested for refusing to castigate Tito. "Traitor!" Khrushchev bellowed at him during that all-night 1956 session in the Belvedere Palace. "If you don't obey, we will crush...
...wrestling in Geneva, but nowhere better than in Poland could Khrushchev more cockily display his power. The electric hopes of 1956 had long since been buried in Poland, and though the Roman Catholic Church and the Polish farmer enjoy a degree of freedom unparalleled behind the Iron Curtain, faithful Communist Gomulka had led his nation's policies safely back into the arms of Moscow. Now Khrushchev was back, and everywhere party workers had crowds organized to cheer and applaud him. "I am an old man," said Nikita Khrushchev, 65, rambling on in lengthy speeches, "and when I am allowed...
...Sosnowiec. where an International (Communist) Mine Workers' Congress was in progress, that Khrushchev hit his stride. There he promised: "Never, never, never will we launch a war against any country anywhere at any time." (He did not promise never, never, never to stay in lands that want to get rid of the Russians.) He continued in his cocky way: "I have told the Americans: 'You have no intercontinental missiles. You have missiles that can send up oranges. We have missiles that can send up tons. Imagine the kind of bombs that could be contained in our missiles...
...main purposes of the state-controlled education policy are "to train in a specialized vocation and to indoctrinate loyalty to the Soviet Communist party," he said...
...opening topic, "Japan Today," Tadamasa Hashimoto appealed to the U.S. "to trust our country, look upon us as a friend, and trade with us." Friendship with the U.S., he felt, is of great importance in feeding his overpopulated country, preventing communist gains among its people, and increasing its industry...