Word: stalinist
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...scuffle, Irina was spirited off to prison in a truck that looked like a bread-delivery wagon. Russian spectators recalled a sim ilar scene in the last chapter of Al exander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, when the hero, Gleb Nerzhin, is carried off to a Stalinist concentration camp in a gay orange and blue van marked "Meat...
...reminder of the Stalin era. The many hundreds of arrests of dissident intellectuals during the past four years have coincided with an official campaign to rehabilitate Stalin's wartime image. As the experienced reader of the Soviet press knows, every favorable mention of Stalin heralds some return to Stalinist methods by the authorities, including intimidation, denunciations, arrests and political show trials...
...survival on easily sundered access routes, it is the place where the cold war began 21 years ago-and where the Communists refuse to let it die. Last week Berlin was once again the center of an incipient crisis. By a sudden decree, the East German regime of Stalinist Walter Ulbricht barred a large number of West German legislators and all military personnel from traveling by road or rail through East Germany on their way to and from West Berlin...
...setting up this parallel between Robespierre and Bitos, Anouilh seems to be warning against the re-emergence of the kind of intolerent righteousness that characterizes tyranny on the Stalinist model...
Suicide for political reasons is hardly a novel idea in Czechoslovakia. At least a score of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotný's lieutenants took their own lives, usually by hanging, in the early days of Alexander Dubček's regime. Shortly after the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century...