Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed with a telescope, police in an apartment across the street watched two known female addicts drop in on Louis and pick up a large package. They followed the women back to their apartment and caught them busily boiling down a batch of opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since Métra knew all the cop tricks, and it would not do to trail him in the familiar black Citroen...
...capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as Premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. Some, like the devoted Communists in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, confessed to others' errors as their last proof of loyalty to the system, and hoped that after their deaths Communist history would thank them for their sacrifice to the cause. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...
...above all, Moscow's confession of failure, admission of serious shortcomings, and blustered warnings were proof of the essential myth of the Red monolith. A going concern does not shake up its management at the very top. After 37 terrible years of trying, the Soviet Communist system had still not found ways to feed and clothe its people, satisfy its national needs and provide a stable succession of governments-the Kremlin leaders openly confessed...
...trying to measure the change from "coexistence" to hardness, from consumer to heavy industry, as if Malenkov and Khrushchev were members of a democratic cabinet politely begging to differ with each other, the fact was that in the final testing of strengths neither man cared basically about ideological matters. Proof of this lay in the resignation announcement. In losing the struggle for power, Malenkov even had to take the rap for errors in agriculture made by Khrushchev...
...matter to Khrushchev (or any other Soviet leader) that the condition he had revealed was in fact the sharpest proof that the Soviet system of state socialism, with its hierarchy of officials and police, is unworkable, both in industry and agriculture. The idea of the "new life" had sprung from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., published just before the old dictator's death, in which the idea of satisfying consumer demand on the basis of "primacy in the production of means of production" could be found in a fog of ideological jargon. Khrushchev made...