Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning to the problems in Asia, Stevenson said that the U.S. would be as "deeply concerned with these lands if Marx, Lenin, and Stalin had never lived. For poverty, oppression and ignorance have always been our concern...
...instead of merely other writers and scholars. He wrote a successful book called The Predicament of Modern Man. But he was still unsatisfied. "We knew what the Nazis believed," he says. "All we had to do was read Mein Kampf. We knew what the Russians believed; we could read Lenin and Stalin. But where was the Western way stated? Only in snippets, here and there...
...public. Persistent rumors have described the Chinese dictator as seriously ill with heart disease. Whatever the rumors, Mao did not appear at a New Year's meeting of high Communist officials, and he failed to show at a committee meeting on Jan. 21, on the anniversary of Lenin's death. His birthday last Nov. 17 went entirely unnoticed in China, though Russia and the satellites whooped it up in his name...
...daily huddles, they met only twice to mesh plans. Besides, they could only assume that the sumptuous "private" quarters provided for each delegation in the Soviet embassy would be as full of hidden wires as a television set. Around the conference tables in their quarters, beneath portraits of Lenin and Stalin, delegation members spoke not a word, communicated by scribbling notes on pads. Later each tore up his notes, pocketed them and took the scraps back to West Berlin to be burned...
...that this "frenzied, insolent plotter . . . this contemptible Judas" had been found guilty of murder, espionage, treason, sabotage and perversion. He was condemned to the "highest degree of punishment, with confiscation of all property and removal of all titles and decorations" (seven Medals of the Soviet Union, five Orders of Lenin...