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...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: MOSCOW V. PEKING: Communist Rivalry Around the World | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...refugee: "Miners in the Ostrava pits went on strike for five days; the soldiers refused to fire on them. Convinced Communists tore party emblems from their lapels, spat on them. Plant militia killed three miners. One militiawoman who shot a miner was beaten to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Independent for a Day | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Stenia was 23, but she had lived a lifetime of terror. She was a left-winger, a militiawoman, a veteran of the resistance and of Gestapo torture. The Nazis had knocked out two of her front teeth; now, when she smiled, she showed shiny, stainless-steel replacements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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