Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myth & Reality. But a myth does not die easily. Among those millions of Soviet citizens who had never played any part in the intrigues of the ruling hierarchy or shared their terrors, there was evident confusion. In Moscow the large number of people seeking to file through the Lenin-Stalin tomb (possibly out of curiosity, to check whether his body was still there) caused a reinforcement of security guards. In Georgia, birthplace of Stalin, the official disregard of the third anniversary of his death (March 5) aroused wide resentment. Next day, following a number of unofficial party meetings, thousands...
Shilly-Shally. Outside the Soviet Union foreign Communist Party leaders, after 20 years of Stalin worship, had their troubles adjusting to the new line. In satellite Poland, Communist newspapers published pictures and laudatory biographies of Polish Communist leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were...
...world's Communist leaders were obviously way behind Moscow. During Khrushchev's tearful description of the intrigues, plots and counterplots that had marked the last days of Stalin, a voice had called from the body of the hall: "Why didn't you kill him?" Answered Khrushchev: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." It is conceivable that Russia's top leadership, seeking further claim to public esteem among Stalin's innumerable victims and their relatives, might yet admit having quietly "removed" the mad dictator. It would explain many things (e.g., the fantastic...
...Stalin's ghost has many haunting years ahead...
...jittery Scotland Yard had done its best to keep the visitor as isolated as possible from the madding, and potentially maddened, crowds that might gather to meet the former Stalin henchman, but Malenkov was in no mood to play the wallflower. From the moment that he stepped from the plane at London's airport, doffing a broad-brimmed grey fedora and waving an amiable hand, Malenkov was plainly ready to charm the masses. Thanks to the Yard, there were no masses present, but Georgy made up for their lack by pumping the hands of a cordon of British dignitaries...