Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure what else to say; finally it got the word and began to speak of "the Malenkov government." In the fashion set by Stalin, Pravda set to work with retouching brushes and scissors to glorify Georgy Malenkov. It ran a photograph showing him with Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung-just the three of them. This proved to be a mutilation of a picture taken three years ago at the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty; some 15 other Soviet big shots, including No. 2 Man Lavrenty Beria and No. 3 Man Molotov, were excised from the picture...
...Foreigner. A few steps behind walked the new Premier, Malenkov, in a huge black coat with grey fur collar. On his left, in a position of singular honor, strode not a Russian but a foreigner-Premier Chou En-lai of Red China, representing Mao. Flanking them walked the rest of Moscow's hierarchy, and behind them the diplomats and the plenipotentiaries of the satellites-Czechoslovakia's Gottwald, Hungary's Rakosi, Poland's Bierut and others. The procession halted and the pallbearers, headed by Malenkov, gently moved the coffin from the carriage. Silently the new leaders...
Ever willing to wait, he told Mao Tse-tung to come to terms with Chiang Kai-shek,. dissolve his army and refrain from making a bid for power in China. But in 1949 Mao drove Chiang Kai-shek out of the Chinese mainland, and proclaimed a People's Republic of China. Then Mao began the familiar technique: purge, consolidate, purge. The addition of China's 400 million to Russia's 200 million was the high tide of world Communism. Stalin's empire occupied a fourth of the world's land surface, claimed a third...
...China, said its Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung, "definitely, forever and with maximum resoluteness," will stay faithful to the Soviet Union. He ordered three days mourning for "the most esteemed and dearest friend and teacher of the Chinese people." Quickly getting in its endorsement of the new regime, Peking announced that 47,150 Chinese cadres have been spending two afternoons a week for two months studying a speech Malenkov made last October...
...China, by Liu Shaw-tong. A straight and human account of life under Mao Tse-tung's new order, by a young Chinese who took a close look, then ran for his life (TIME...