Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day there was a shocked silence in Belgrade. This was Khrushchev the dictator talking, sure now of his ascendancy, contemptuous of all but his. own, threatening to crush anything in his way. When the time came to change the theme of benevolence, an exile in Ust Kamenogorsk could expect no mercy...
Apples and Eclairs. "Overflowing with life and activity," wrote one of her secretaries, "she glows with physical joy, hugging to her strong heart every thing that quivers with life, in order to embrace it, crush it, draw the very marrow out of it . . . In . . . intervals passive, idling and greedy, she munches apples . . . disembowels chocolate eclairs arranges the fire . . lights some sticks of what she calls 'smell-good.' These flames and the smoke intoxicate...
...massive armed intervention" in Hungary is a matter for international concern, concluded a lucid and devastating U.N. committee report. The headlines told of brutality condemned, but the real fascination of the 150,000-word report is the story of how Russia coldly provoked the uprising it intended to crush, and ruled through a Premier held prisoner. See FOREIGN NEWS, Indictment for Murder...
...independence. The question then arose: How much further could Moscow go in granting freedom to other restless satellites? Evidence before the U.N. committee suggests that there was a difference among Soviet leaders on this point. One group, probably the marshals, was against any further concessions, and eager to crush any rebellion that might take place in Hungary...
Playing with Fire. There is thus reason to believe that the Soviet marshals intended to provoke rebellion in Hungary in order to crush it firmly and finally. But the Russians badly miscalculated their own strength and control. Within a few days the Hungarian Communist Party had disintegrated, the Hungarian army had defected, and the borders of Hungary were open to a host of sharp-eyed Western observers. Overnight the Revolution became a war strictly between Hungarians and Russians, with the world looking on. In this unexpected situation, the Soviet army command was forced to mark time while the forces they...