Word: egorychev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet Doubletalk. It had all the earmarks of a do-nothing Congress, but Brezhnev jolted a few staunch anti-Stalinists by proposing that the Soviet Party Presidium be renamed Politburo -a title that won infamy under General Secretary Stalin prior to 1952. But Moscow City Boss Nikolai Egorychev, who proposed a return to the General Secretary label, hastened to point out that both terms were "Leninist" in origin. Egorychev was tapped by his superiors to deliver a lengthy speech explaining the difference between the sins of Stalin and the heroism of the Stalin era, a piece of Soviet doubletalk that...
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