Word: proletarianization
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...Proletarian politeness
Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...
...waiting to see if they will execute her or not." That comment last week, by a university professor who had been imprisoned during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, typified the growing curiosity of China's millions about the outcome of the show trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing and nine other Chinese "evildoers" in Peking. Hearings ended nearly four weeks ago, after the prosecution demanded the death penalty for Jiang and her notorious Gang of Four. The sentences could finally come this week. However, according to TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein, the failure...
...notorious Gang of Four. In the dock for the third time since the proceedings began on Nov. 20 Jiang seemed calmly defiant and unrepentant as she listened to the most serious charge against her: organizing the persecution of former Head of State Liu Shaoqi during the chaotic Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. Liu, who died in disgrace in 1969, was posthumously restored to favor last year...
...charges against all ten defendants are serious. Lin Biao's allies will be charged with sedition and plotting to kill Mao. The Gang of Four will be on the block for "conspiracy to overthrow the proletarian dictatorship, persecution of cadres and the practice of a fascist dictatorship," and for trying to "engineer a counterrevolutionary armed rebellion...