Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine days after President Eisenhower challenged Moscow to prove peaceful intent by deeds, not words, the masters in the Kremlin replied-with 5,000 words. They spoke through a long, front-page editorial in Pravda, Izvestia, and other leading papers; inside, on page 3, appeared a belated, full translation of Eisenhower's address (TIME, April...
Without making any concessions, the Kremlin was plainly maneuvering for big-power talks. In the past, such palavers have invariably won the Communists major advantages in propaganda and power politics. A lot of talk now could possibly stall or check such positive Western moves as the European Defense Community or increased pressure on the Red Chinese. But the Russian bid for a conference has growing support among West Europeans and neutralist Asians...
When the nationalities resisted, they were slaughtered like cattle, but the results were often different from what the Kremlin intended. In 1941 millions of Ukrainians and a host of Chechens and Tartars deserted Soviet ranks and welcomed the German invaders. Retribution came in 1945, when Stalin sent Nikita Khrushchev, the Hammer of the Ukraine, to wipe out whole villages of dissident Ukrainian peasants (TIME, Jan. 12). Chechens and Tartars were "resettled" beyond the Urals...
...rainy season begins in Laos, and all but two of its 20 airstrips become unusable. This was why he had waited so patiently at the border, while the French-listening to the peace noises out of Moscow-had mistakenly ascribed his hesitation to possible peace overtures from the Kremlin. Now Salan was moving everything he could spare before the rains came, hoping to hold a hedgehog position in the Plaine des Jarres like that at Nasan...
...began last week with a startling announcement that last year's Georgian purge, like that of the Kremlin doctors, had been "a crude violation of Soviet...