Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Stalin's death, only six non-Communist newsmen worked and lived in Moscow. Others could not get permanent visas or, even if they could, decided that ironhanded Russian censorship made working in Moscow almost useless. By last week, with the Communists stepping up their "peace offensive," Russia had more non-Communist correspondents than at any time since World War II (except for such special occasions as the Foreign Ministers' conferences of 1945 and 1947). More than 40 U.S., British, French, Canadian, German and Indian newsmen were covering Russia, many on guided tours. The German and Indian...
Next morning Nehru, wearing a white rose, laid a wreath at the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square, and set out on the standard Kremlin tour, interrupted at intervals by "passing" groups of happy Russian tourists, who just chanced to have bouquets of flowers to give to him. In the Kremlin armory Nehru lingered over a small dirk of Indian craftsmanship, once owned by Peter the Great...
...show in years. Emerging from the protection of the Kremlin's wall and the shelter of the Kremlin's controlled press, Russia's top men seemed inept, uncertain, boorish. Yugoslavs watched the antics of Nikita Khrushchev with amazement. Western diplomats, remembering the remote, inscrutable, implacable Joseph Stalin, had to keep reminding themselves that this garrulous little man was his successor...
What shook Vidali was to hear "Beria, Abakumov and others" named as being responsible for a job he had done himself. Tough Vidali, who lost his right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...
When unrest spread to Moscow, Stalin gave him extraordinary powers. Comrade Kaganovich built the famed Moscow subway; he also cast thousands of Moscovites into jail and changed Moscow into a bastion of the party line. Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...