Word: stalinism
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...state, but Marx had no such thoughts or intentions. And the media propagates this fear. You ask any journalist to recite a quote from Marx, and that is what they will say. The truth is, that is the only one they usually know. Unfortunately, you get someone like Stalin or Castro, who use Marx's words as an excuse to shut down churches, and then people believe that is what socialism is all about, which it certainly...
...also dragged its feet on ratifying the reformist win in 30 Tehran constituencies, while the conservative judiciary has also sought to embarrass Khatami's efforts to repair relations with the West by charging 13 Jews with spying for Israel in a trial that appears to owe more to Stalin and the Spanish Inquisition than to anything approximating due process...
...ensuing plot tracks the descent into an inescapable nightmare. Marie is driven by an overwhelming desire to escape the poverty and tyranny of Stalin's Russia and return to France. When a French acting troupe comes to Kiev, Marie seizes an opportunity of escape by giving a letter to the lead actress played by Catherine Deneuve. Marie hopes the French government will recognize her plight and help her return to France...
...Wargnier's film is unrelentingly grim and one-dimensional. Millions of Russians managed to lead interesting and productive lives and even find happiness under Stalin's regime. By portraying Alexei's submission to the Party as a sacrifice he secretly undergoes to help Marie escape, Wargnier offers little more than a commentary on the brutality and rigidity of the Soviet Union. But we can't help wondering about brighter moments in the lives of Wargnier's protagonists...
Born in 1952, toward the end of the cruel Stalin years, to a lower-class family, Putin was the child of a religious mother who survived the siege of Leningrad and a faithful Communist Party father invalided out of the army with multiple shrapnel wounds. He was a late child, born when his mother was 41 years old. His two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox...