Word: leninization
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...Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brezhnev's colleagues in the Politburo had even been known to refer to him as vozhd (roughly, great leader), a title previously given only to Lenin and Stalin. Privately, Soviets joked about the cult of personality that gradually surrounded their President as he fought against the inexorable frailties of old age. It was said, for example, that he had even outdone Stalin in the matter of mustaches by cultivating two of them, a reference...
...Council of Ministers building, they knew what they were there to do. They would ratify the choice already made by the Politburo, that of Yuri Andropov, 68, to be Brezhnev's successor as party chief. The post has been held by only five men since the Bolshevik Revolution: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Shortly after noon Friday, Andropov, the son of a railroad worker from the northern Caucasus, became the sixth...
...precautions attracted Brezhnev's attention, however, and he felled it with a single shot." Brezhnev probably understood the quarry because the quarry was so like himself. The difference was that Brezhnev had no Brezhnev in the Soviet hierarchy to shoot him down; he saw to that. Neither Lenin nor Stalin nor Khrushchev, he had nothing sudden, nothing revolutionary, about him. Yet all three of his predecessors were contained in him. He gave stolidity to his country's history...
...came at 7:15 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday. Nikolai Shchelokov, the Minister for Public Order, had just delivered a brief television address to celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody had died...
...wonder General Jaruzelski is such an efficient and experienced oppressor of his own people. He is a recipient of the Order of Lenin, bestowed upon him by the Soviet Union for his service during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia...