Word: lenines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other half consists of Khrushchev's own statements, few of which are allowed to pass without some kind of rejoinder in the commentary. When unable to fight their adversary with established facts and statistics, the editors resort to snide remarks and rhetorical tricks. All else failing, they even adopt Lenin's old technique of refutation by quotation marks: e.g. Soviet women are "emancipated" (sneer...
...dozen suspects), the Maximum Leader hurriedly branded the decree a forgery, jailed 14 persons, including a Havana printer, on charges of circulating it. "An absurd invention," said Castro blandly on TV. "Who would dream of such madness?" But many Cubans remained unconvinced-considering the course that Castro sails. As Lenin himself once said: "Revolution is impossible as long as the family exists...
...Russians protected each advance against the tribes by a line of forts which in time became villages of Russian settlers, mostly runaway serfs or religious dissenters willing to take the risks of frontier life. Then came the long columns of political prisoners (among them: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin). During one 75-year period in the 19th century, nearly a million exiles and their families were shipped to Siberia. Another million settlers were drawn from Moscow's subject races: rebellious Ukrainians, Poles, Baits, and dissident mountaineers from the Caucasus...
...predominantly contemporary and abstract, the exhibition ranged the centuries. Yugoslavia sent reproductions of 22 of the country's 6,000 medieval Byzantine frescoes. There was a room of powerful Orozco oils from Mexico, a retrospective of Jacques Villon from France. The Soviet Union sent its customary assortment of Lenin portraits and statues of muscled workers. Cuba followed suit with some bearded Fidelistas and a ten-foot woodcut showing Uncle Sam, abetted by imperialist lackeys from the Associated Press and the United Press, stamping on the "bleeding Cuban people." Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art picked the U.S. entries...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...