Word: nonperson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rewriting history has long been a tradition among Soviet leaders. Stalin revised a history of the Communist Party to puff up his role in the Bolshevik Revolution. Nikita Khrushchev began the deflation of Stalin; Leonid Brezhnev converted Khrushchev into a nonperson; Gorbachev in turn has depreciated Brezhnev, causing his name to be removed from factories, cities and streets. As the joke goes, the Soviet Union is the only country in the world with an unpredictable past...
...Nikita initially dismissed the story as nonsense. As the days slipped by and the intrigue grew, the senior Khrushchev realized that his son was right. But it was too late. After more than a decade as one of the globe's two most powerful leaders, Khrushchev became a nonperson overnight. He died...
...canceled, his recordings yanked off the radio. Even a private performance at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's official residence in Moscow, was marred when the piano was mysteriously vandalized before the concert. Apart from a few performances, mostly on battered uprights in remote villages, Feltsman was a musical nonperson...
...kopecks (12 cents) each, 200,000 copies of a 30-page booklet containing the text of the interview as compiled --and slightly censored--by TASS. The agency deleted a joking allusion to an aged Soviet Finance Minister and a glancing mention of Nikita Khrushchev, who apparently is still a nonperson in the U.S.S.R. Most striking, TASS changed a Gorbachev reference to "God on high" to "honestly...
...held for a month in 1971, an event that inspired a worldwide protest: furious, his old friend Castro visited Padilla's cell to rail against him. "Abroad they are speaking against the Cuban revolution," he yelled, "and you are responsible for that." After his release, Padilla was officially a nonperson for the next decade and eked out a bare living as a translator. Only after Senator Edward Kennedy made a personal appeal to Castro was Padilla allowed to emigrate...