Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the winter months, Rakosi's position deteriorated. After Khrushchev's denunciation of the "cult of personality," Hungarian rank and filers began muttering complaints of Little Stalin Rakosi. At the spring meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Federation, Rakosi was called a "murderer" and a "Judas," and on a vote of confidence only 20 out of 180 writers supported the party. Rakosi's one advantage is that the Russians seem unable to find anyone to replace him. But when the news came that Tito had been invited to visit Moscow in June, Rakosi-began to act like...
...public milled in iconolatrous rapture around a devoutly assembled collection of Freudiana-busts, portraits, manuscripts, letters. Some 2,500 made a symbolic return to the womb when they crowded into the Morrison Hotel's sub terranean Terrace Casino to hear the high priest of the pure Freudian cult, Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, 77, eulogize the master. They gave Jones a standing ovation...
...cold-eyed, paunchy Chervenkov proved a little slow to toe the new post-Stalin line, slow to apologize to Tito and to repudiate "the cult of the individual." Three weeks ago the Bulgarian Politburo charged him with "violation of legality in the trial of Kostov," pronounced Kostov posthumously innocent, and freed his accomplices. Last week Chervenkov's comrades deposed him as Premier, relegated him to one of four Deputy Premiers. His successor: dandified Anton Yugov, 52, a home-grown hatchet man who, as Interior Minister in 1945, admittedly executed 2,000 political enemies. Tito's Yugoslavs will presumably...
Leaked to the world press and foreign diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly the campaign was directed against the dead Stalin, and busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine...
Whatever Stalin's reasons, he permitted Lysenko to establish his naive and bungling doctrines as an officially supported cult. Critics were punished or silenced...