Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Bolsheviks made their coup d'état and set up their Marxist-Leninist dictatorship in 1917, Vishinsky was running a Menshevik soup kitchen in the Zamoskvoretsky district. For three tough years, little was heard of Andrei Yanuarevich. Then in 1920 the civil war ended, and he was admitted to the triumphant Russian Communist Party. It was a switch many thousands of people in the professional classes, facing starvation or physical liquidation, made at that time. But it set him apart from the old Bolsheviks; he was for a long time suspect...
...three pounds heavier, summoned 19 members of the Congress Party working committee to his broad-lawned, two-story home. For two hours he lectured them on his impressions in the land of Communist Mao. General theme: "Anything they can do, we can do better," and "Democracy is better than dictatorship...
Bloodlessly, Pakistan changed from an unstable, pro-Western democracy to a more stable, pro-Western military dictatorship...
...them. During World War II, the only films produced were propaganda, and when SCAP censors took over at war's end, the results were little better. Despite the censorship, a horde of leftist directors, writers and actors, who had been kept out of the movies during the military dictatorship, began making films that gave credit to Japanese Reds for the emancipation of Japanese women...
...about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...