Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italo Nofri had once planned to be a priest himself, and when he turned to Communism, it was because he believed implicitly that it "would bring peace and social justice to our country. To me," said Italo Nofri, "Stalin was like God." Other Communists, he was soon to find, felt differently. Hearing the official assault on the Red deity after his death, Nofri was at first indignant, then puzzled, then racked with worry. At last he decided to leave the party...
...weeks that followed, the tormented Bruna told no one of her experience. Mayor Cerofolino was re-elected to office, but by a much smaller majority, and Nofri's anti-Communist campaigning grew stronger than ever as he spread the news around of Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin's reign of terror. Last month Bruna got a letter warning her for the last time to put a stop to her husband's anti-Communist activity. Desperate, she showed Italo the letter. Italo went straight to the public prosecutor...
...longer restricted to Moscow, easily get permission to travel outside, though they are still barred from strategic areas and Siberian slave camps. Censors no longer kill all references to "corrective labor camps," government shortcomings and bureaucratic bunglings in the U.S.S.R., agricultural shortages and criticism of anything from the Stalin...
Optimism in this same vein came in a rather light-hearted tone from Robert Lowell who, while commenting on Partisan Review, said, "Anyone must be impressed by a magazine which was against Stalin in 1936 and against Time in 1956." Rahv had previously attacked Time's article on the "reconciliation of American intellectuals...
...congress in Le Havre: the French Communist Party was going to go right on being tough. "A few isolated voices in our own ranks," thundered Maurice Thorez, "have echoed enemy noises. Some have taken opportunist positions, become liquidators, and even repeated the worst lies of our adversaries." Stalin should not be castigated too severely, explained L'Humanité Boss Etienne Fajon, one of the Moscow pilgrims, for he had only "used unworthy methods for a just and victorious struggle...