Word: leninization
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Headquarters of Communism's first postwar political commissariat in Berlin was on the second floor of a dismal concrete building on a thoroughfare named, of all things, Wallstrasse-Wall Street. From these few dingy rooms, the faithful Ulbricht, now sporting a wispy mustache and a pointed little Lenin beard, sent his agents fanning out to grab control-first of the Berlin city administration, then of every town and city in the Soviet zone...
Virtually all the comfortable old neighborhood Bierstuben have been forced out of business. Today the German worker must take his evening glass of beer at the big, bleak, state-run HO halls, where portraits of Lenin and old Spitzbart (pointed beard, i.e., Ulbricht) look down mockingly from the walls...
...Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. The Making of the President 1960,White (3) 3. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) 4. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (7) 5. The New English Bible (5) 6. Ring of Bright Water,Maxwell (4) 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (6) 8. The Spanish Civil War, Thomas (10) 9. Firsthand Report, Adams (8) 10. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks...
...returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with kisses. It was a gooey occasion. Thousands of Muscovites jammed Red Square to toast Titov as he stood saluting atop Lenin's tomb, while helicopters overhead rained tiny, multicolored pictures of Titov...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...