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Most striking was the complete disappearance of N. A. Voznesensky, an amiable younger member of the Politburo, in charge of five-year planning. Voznesensky, something of an opportunist, had switched from Malenkov's camp to Zhdanov's. In March 1949 Voznesensky was fired. For a while, slighting and insulting references to him appeared in the Russian press. After that, it was as if Voznesensky had never been. For example, a recently published popular Soviet history book omits his name from a wartime list of Politburo members. George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth," which rewrote history to suit...
...little allegory is generally clear enough. The Governor, so sure that the "masses" want someone to worship and not to be told "that it is their duty to think," evilly overreaches himself. But poky liberalism gets caught in the middle, as usual, and goes down, leaving the opportunist Minister for Public Instruction in doubtful control as civil war begins. Only the Governor's passively Christlike brother, a concentration-camp veteran, and his simple peasant wife are left free to face the evil with an armament of unselfish love...
...Leaguer. In a huff, Sarat Bose quit the Congress, organized his own Socialist Republican Party. He was in Switzerland, recuperating from a mild heart attack, when a by-election was scheduled for his brother Satish's legislative seat. Promptly he declared himself a candidate. Onto his bandwagon leaped opportunist Communists, disgruntled Socialists and rabid Hindu Communalists-all united against an old Congress Party warhorse, Suresh...
...other chieftains around headquarters had "dragged at the tail end of Roosevelt . . . did not adequately maintain our own Communist identity and vanguard role." This is the sin now known, in the Aesopian doubletalk of communism, as "tailism." Browder, said Dennis, was still hypnotized by his "original opportunist illusions." But Dennis' eyes had been opened. To the barricades...
...Stalin just an opportunist, saying and doing what seems best - for him - at the moment? Many Americans believe that, and thereby lose an opportunity to understand what threatens them. Stalin's line shifts. Sometimes he acts like a flaming revolutionist, sometimes like a good fellow who just wants to get along. The latter aspect is especially prominent in interviews given by Stalin over the years to visiting writers from the West. The confusion adds up to the "inscrutable Stalin," the man nobody knows. This misconception about Stalin is one of the most important facts of world politics today...