Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have been misfits under any system; they are spirited and intelligent people, often with assured careers in the U.S.S.R., had they cared to stay subject to its tyranny. The message they one & all want conveyed to the West is: "Do not identify the Russian people with the Kremlin. The Russians, if you have the wit to use them, are your best potential allies against your joint enemies-their masters...
Outlook: Believes the Kremlin represents the most ruthless dictatorship in modern times, but that it may change or collapse under internal pressures, possibly at Stalin's death. In general, approves Dean Acheson's foreign-policy course, both in Europe and Asia. Thinks the West should never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles...
...Mutual Security Act, which allocates $100,000,000 to mobilize Iron Curtain escapees into military units. The U.S., shouted Vishinsky, is planning to set up an army of "criminals and war criminals" to overthrow the Soviet Union. "No force on earth will be able to overthrow the Kremlin," he said. "It would be a ludicrous, preposterous attempt. Your tanks cannot stand up against our tanks, your guns cannot stand against our guns, your fighters cannot stand against our fighters...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...
...bloody postwar history of satellite purges that a 100% Muscovite had been picked as the victim. On the surface it looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald, for example. It was entirely possible...