Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this fake little paean to peace, the Kremlin announced "a new nuclear explosion" had been "carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...
...Kremlin's Middle East maneuvers had the advantage, and perhaps the design, of diverting attention from a far more important event: the gallant and tenacious resistance of Hungary's patriots, the most important revolt in 39 years of Communist rule. The fact that the whole nation rebelled could not be concealed, veiled, or transformed by slanders, and the entire world could hear the echoes of the savage repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced...
...final reception for Poland's visiting Gomulka, stubby Nikita Khrushchev planted himself firmly with the Kremlin's whole hierarchy at his back, and faced the diplomats of the West, and the satellites, with an intemperate speech that betrayed as much as it threatened...
...Kremlin men cheered. Gomulka laughed. Red-faced and gesticulating, Nikita rolled on: "The situation is favorable to us. If God existed, we would thank him for this. On Hungary-we had Hungary thrust upon us. We are very sorry that such a situation exists there, but the most important thing is that the counterrevolution must be shattered. They accuse us of interfering in Hungary's internal affairs. They find the most fearful words to accuse us. But when the British. French and Israelis cut the throats of the Egyptians, that is only a police action aimed at restoring order...
...crime of admitting non-Communists to his government. The good Gomulka, made wise by subsequent events in Hungary, had emphasized "accord" with the Soviet Union, had reaffirmed the Warsaw Pact and was rebuilding his government on strictly Communist lines. As they all drove off together in big black limousines, Kremlin cordiality seemed to promise a set of formulas aimed to satisfy Polish aspirations for "sovereignty and national independence...