Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader was former Minister of Communal Economy Kazimierz Mijal, who insisted that there was no such thing as a Polish road to socialism and that to say so was to capitulate to capitalism. Said he : "Why does the party keep discussing the need to fight antisemitism, which does not exist in Poland, and ignore what we must do about the serious problem of anti-Sovietism, which really does exist?" Behind the locked doors of the committee room the Stalinists blasted the whole Gomulka line, singling out his closest supporters for vicious personal attacks with an intensity which made the startled...
...conflict in a Communist state between the people and their rulers, since the party automatically embodies the will of the masses. "The old class warfare amongst the Chinese people is fundamentally ended," declared Peking's People's Daily, reporting on Mao's speech. "But new contradictions exist . . . contradictions between the masses and their leaders...
Soaring Syphilis. Trud's article, one of the rare admissions that prostitution does indeed exist under Soviet socialism, has been echoed in the satellite states. A Hungarian magazine recently asserted that there are 10,000 prostitutes in Budapest. In Poland, according to Radio Gdansk, there are 230,000 professionals. In a survey of Communism's old "ostrichlike policy," Salomon Lastik in Nowa Kultura reports that half of the prostitutes in Warsaw are below 25 years of age and of these one in three is not yet 18, proving them "a generation which has matured in the conditions...
Great areas of the land they settled in are the same today as when they found them. In the whole vast area, there are less than 400 miles of asphalt roads. Such railroads as exist bull their way through the bush in short, fitful spurts. But with startling frequency, in what was yesterday only a wilderness, such modern cities as Salisbury, Lusaka, Nairobi and Accra hive and hum in a fury of 20th century commerce...
...Leonardo da Vinci's enduring fame, less than 30 of his paintings (including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper) have come down to posterity. In the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity.* This week the Detroit Institute of Arts put on display a third painting attributed to Leonardo that has never before been publicly exhibited: The Adoration with Two Angels, presumably done in Leonardo's youth (between 1472 and 1478) while he was still working in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio in Florence...