Word: nikitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domination. After Communist partisans led by Hoxha defeated German occupiers and internal opponents in 1944 and grabbed power, Hoxha imposed a centrally planned economy and established total control through the feared secret police, the Sigurimi. In the years that followed, he distanced Albania from other Communist countries. Enraged by Nikita Khrushchev's de- Stalinization campaign, Hoxha broke with Moscow in 1961. When the Chinese began to experiment with reform in the late '70s, he denounced them as "revisionists," and effectively cut off economic ties...
...that Molotov had died of a "lengthy and grave illness." The man who had lived in almost total obscurity since his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1962 was laid to rest in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, not far from the grave of the Kremlin leader who ousted him, Nikita Khrushchev...
...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...
...letter writing effort was joined by a panel of speakers who addressed the rally at Widener. The first to speak was Mariam Ozernoy, a Russian emigree, who spoke on herrecent release from the Soviet Union. Her speechwas followed by a talk on Christian dissent in theUSSR by Nikita Moravsky, former attache to theAmerican Embassy in Moscow...
Without mentioning Nikita S. Khrushchev by name, the author indirectly criticized the late premier, who was ousted in disgrace...