Word: deviationist
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...suburb to announce that she has sent two messages to the Kremlin. Her goading requests: 1) Whatever happened to her engineer son Sergei, last heard from in Moscow some 20 years ago? 2) When will the Soviets honestly rewrite the history of denounced "Traitor" Leon Trotsky and of his "deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation in Paris in 1938? It seemed, however, that Mme. Trotsky felt she was challenging Moscow chiefly for the sake of the record. Said she of Khrushchev & Co.: "What can you expect from people who refused to protest either Stalin...
...When the official mills of the Communists grind out a law disbanding religious orders, Father Janos bids his fellow Jesuits go underground, or abroad, and himself becomes a modern catacomb Christian. But the secret police soon snap him up and jail him as a conspirator in a trumped-up "deviationist" plot against the state...
...short, Tito, deviationist, thought he knew better than the Kremlin. There was only one possible answer. A few weeks later, Tito and his Yugoslavs were expelled from the Cominform on the charge of "nationalism" and associated crimes; Yugoslav Communists were ordered to "change the Communist leaders...
...historically "accurate" description of the conflict between the landed proletariat and the "terroristic" cattle barons, but it deplores the fact that Hero Alan Ladd follows "the Hollywood strongman tradition," which, "coupled with extreme emphasis on a series of bloody fist fights, constitutes . . . capitulation to current Hollywood standards." Another deviationist error: "The wives of the homesteaders . . . are shown urging their husbands to give up and move on. This is an insult to the great tradition of pioneer women...
...throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva in Evening Moscow: "It was with enormous indignation and wrath that we, the youth of the University construction project, learned of the repulsive activities of the despised hireling of foreign people...