Word: khrushchevism
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...number has dwindled to five, and one of these is shaky. Revue sold out to Quick last month after losing 26.5% of its advertising in the first half of 1965. Last March a badly slipping Revue published what purported to be a sensational interview with Nikita Khrushchev in retirement, but the interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence of its own. It drew a blast from...
...regime, the 53-year-old Ukrainian wrote a novel, The Bluebottle, that contained an angry attack on the Soviet tyranny and a vigorous defense of human liberty; smuggled out of Russia, it was published in England late in 1962. The Kremlin reacted swiftly. On the assumption, officially expressed by Khrushchev, that anyone who dislikes life in the Soviet Union must be a "lu natic," Author Tarsis was committed to a mental hospital...
...Throw them out! Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin or Khrushchev would welcome these spineless, nodding, grunting freshmen. Since the people have lost their say in Congress because Representatives must bow to der Leader's "political advice," why have an election? If Congressmen don't do their job for the people because they fear loss of their position, where is our Republic, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights? In the future, I shall pay more attention to the way my Representative and Senators are voting...
...part, Soviet Communism in the 1960s has mellowed considerably as its leaders have discovered that goulash is more palatable than gunpowder. Under Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...
...Joys of Retirement, by Nikita Khrushchev...