Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's leaders have flunked their doublethink lessons, according to Barrington Moore, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, of the Russian Research Center. In his new book, "Terror and Progress, USSR," Moore says that the Kremlin is trying to reconcile "the glow of official propaganda" with "daily experience for Soviet citizens" by resorting to "fairly typical bureaucratic cynicism...
...know," he said, "the world is suffering from a multiplicity of fears. We fear the men in the Kremlin, we fear what they will do to our friends around them. We are fearing what unwise investigators will do to us here at home as they try to combat subversion or bribery or deceit within. We fear depression, we fear the loss of jobs. All of these, with their impact on the human mind, make us act almost hysterically...
Having judged the Truman policy a failure, said the Vice President, Eisenhower & Co. looked to the Kremlin for clues on which to base the new look. "Rather than let the Communists nibble us to death all over the world in little wars," the Government decided to rely "on our massive mobile retaliatory power, which we could use in our discretion against the major sources of aggression at times and places that we chose...
...there was an odd sort of comfort for the West in Malenkov's measured warning about the menace of nuclear war. It was the first concrete evidence that the men in the Kremlin, like those in the free world, recognize the suicidal implications of the H-bomb...
...convinced that their system, with all its temporary drawbacks, would ultimately produce a materialist heaven on earth-Theologian Gollwitzer called it a "secularized Christian eschatology." Accordingly, they reasoned themselves into a 1984-type "dream world." Russian professors argued that the prisoners must see things "dialectically." For instance, if the Kremlin planned to erect a magnificent city street on a row of squalid huts, it was as good as there already. Hence it should be reported as such to the outside world...