Word: leninization
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Though the prosecutor ultimately forced Daniel to admit the impropriety of smuggling manuscripts, both defendants stayed tough throughout the trial. Sinyavsky, cool, red-bearded, and looking, as Hayward reports, "rather like a good-natured goblin," was the harder of the two. He was charged with besmirching the image of Lenin by imagining a room whose walls were papered with currency bearing Lenin's portrait. He had further smeared Soviet womanhood by writing: "You see women walking about the streets, looking like Eunuchs -waddling like pregnant dachshunds, or as scrawny as ostriches, with swollen bodies, varicose veins, wadded breasts...
...Moscow, deploring the fact that the party structure had never been thoroughly analyzed in print. Then and there, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov decided to correct the oversight. The result will not reap any literary honors, for it is heavy-footed. And, as Avtorkhanov himself admits, the book will not win the Lenin Peace Prize either. Em bedded in its dense pages is the conviction that the free world can never get along with Communist Russia...
...this dualistic state, the Foreign Minister, for example, is a figurehead. The true Foreign Minister is the party, whose foreign policy, insists Avtorkhanov, has not changed since Lenin's time. Coexistence, he adds, is no more than a tactical pause in the grand and unalterable plan to turn the world into a Communist state...
...balcony scene was played in a style that could only be described as Socialist surrealism. High above the cheering crowds and the nodding lindens of Gorky Street, Charles de Gaulle beamed magnificently from the very window in Moscow's massive, 19th century city hall where Lenin had exhorted the revolutionaries of 1919. "I am in finitely touched," De Gaulle began. "I bring you the greetings of the Parisian people and the people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies...
...ride into Moscow with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny, De Gaulle followed the old Kaluga Road (now Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...