Word: stalinist
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...truth the pronouncements of men like Mikhail Suslov, once branded as liars. Unable to bring themselves to a specific espousal of the Khrushchev cause, the media have achieved their goal by simply presenting the Khrushchev version of what the dispute is all about: war vs. coexistence, racism vs. socialism, Stalinist rigidity vs. an attempt at democracy...
...seems likely that China's revolt came in reaction to Stalinist-style subordination. As the poorer partner, China industrializing had everything to gain by an equalitarian relationship with industrial Russia. Soviet charges that the Chinese arbitrarily harassed the technicians sent there are hard to believe. The accusation that the Chinese see virtue in poverty is a palpable lie which Soviet spokesmen cannot document by reference to any Chinese publication or statement...
...leadership would be between the old revolutionary Communists, like Mikhail Suslov, and younger men like Dmitry Polyansky. Suslov and his companions lived through the 1917 revolution and fought upward in the Communist ranks with the sense that strengthening the edifice built against such overwhelming odds justified the Stalinist excesses...
...Czechoslovakia, the literary journal Literarni Noviny published an interview with venerable Hungarian Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs, 78, who complained that "as a result of the Stalinist era, we have missed 50 years of the development of capitalism," called for the adoption of "everything new and everything scientifically progressive that's originated in the West since Lenin's death." The Czech party organ immediately criticized all the major literary magazines for "serious gaps, political errors, and ideological confusion," scored them for "propagating revisionist tendencies...
Educated to Lie. Havemann's heresy was obviously inspired by the liberalized intellectual climate that has spread through Eastern Europe, with the notable exception of Stalinist East Germany. Defying Ulbricht's regime, Havemann spoke out in a recent lecture series to students at East Berlin's Humboldt University on the explosive subject of freedom and morality. Under Stalinism, he declared, man is "educated to hypocrisy and dishonesty" by a police state that kills thought. "All this we must change completely." When dogma blocks the free exchange of ideas, he said, it "creates the conditions for a disastrous...