Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried with full Communist honors, the Czech National Assembly last week smoothly elected his successor by a unanimous show of 353 hands. The new President: Antonin Novotny, 52. the onetime locksmith who has been First Secretary of the Czech Communist Party since 1953. In a departure from the post-Stalin taboo against party leaders' taking government posts, Novotny kept his party job. But, like all the other changes inflicted on the nation by the Communists since the 1948 Putsch, this one caused hardly a ripple in docile, beaten Czechoslovakia...
...tried to hoist the Red flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust"-to realize his mistake. His fumbling book of remorse and recantation is pervaded by pathos. "Why?" he keeps asking in hurt, "say-it-ain't-so, Joe" tones, but Joe long ago gave the definitive answer: "The truncheon-beat, beat, beat, beat, and then...
Khrushchev, rightly or wrongly, is undoubtedly the man. He has ousted Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov, Shepilov and now Zhukov. Not even Stalin had so much power...
...noisy confusion compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
Stepping briskly past the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum, where new Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky took the salute that two weeks earlier would have gone to Zhukov, the troops of the Moscow garrison drew a roar of cheers; so did the trim female marchers of the Spartak Sports Club, who carried a large globe around which revolved two model Sputniks. But the hardware that clanked through the world's most effective display case for military might was impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception...