Word: leninization
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...forced to land in Kiev; Czech Party Boss Antonin Novotny had to wait 16 hours in Leningrad for the Moscow fog to lift. Once they arrived, the delegates wandered the city like conventioners anywhere, clicking pictures of the Spassky Gate, shopping at GUM, or lining up to peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others belted vodka in their freshly painted hotel rooms and watched the proceedings on television, or listened to highlights of the Congress broadcast in 54 languages, including Zulu, Nepalese and Quechua-a language spoken by Indians...
...Italian government for his book Report from Palermo. In common with most of those on the church's Calendar of Saints, Dolci makes no sense to sensible men. He may well be a saint but if so he will be the first to have received the Lenin Peace Prize. James McNeish, an itinerant New Zealand journalist, has now undertaken Dolci's biography. It is a strange story, and possibly a more ambitious writer would not have succeeded so well. McNeish lets the facts speak their own contradictions and confesses himself baffled, after four years' active association with...
...dialogue especially scintillating. Omar Sharif reads aloud a newspaper headline: "The Czar's in prison, Lenin's in Moscow, civil war has broken out!" Ralph Richardson, on learning that the police have been knocking at his door, exclaims: "Oh no! Not another purge...
Peking is not only unrealistic about us. Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until 1912 when Mao was already eighteen years of age. To hear the Peking leaders talk talk you would think they were an off-shot of European Socialism. Actually the problems they face and the methods they use are in large part inherited from Chinese history...
Last week staid old Zurich celebrated dada's 50th anniversary. Over a thou sand gathered where the Cabaret Voltaire once stood (and Lenin once lived...