Word: stalinist
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...sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...
...release of the five Czech bishops was the first sign of a thaw between the church and a Stalinist regime that has been tougher on Catholicism longer than any other satellite government. But it had in short (5 ft. 2 in.), cheerful Josef Beran a tough opponent. Son of a schoolteacher, he served 15 years as a parish priest before becoming a teacher at Prague's Charles University in 1927. Beran was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, spent nearly three years at the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Prague...
...biggest mistake, it seemed, was to help topple Rudolf Slansky, the party leader who was hanged in 1952 along with ten other Reds on trumped-up charges of espionage and treason. This was irony indeed, since Novotny himself was a ringleader in the 1952 blood bath. Old Stalinist Novotny could not shrug off his own guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky...
Aiming to "humanize Communism," Kadar has sacked Stalinist political hacks, appointed non-Communists to Cabinet posts, and allowed nonparty members to serve in the Parliament. He has granted amnesty to thousands of political prisoners and encouraged refugees who fled in 1956 to return with free pardons; today the government claims that more than one-third of 1956's 200,000 refugees have come back home. Worker membership in the Communist Party is not a sure guarantee of success. "We are not going to give red bloods the same privilege once enjoyed by bluebloods," says Kadar...
...land, and the remaining 15% is divided among a variety of insurgents, ranging from tribal groups, such as the Shans, Karens and Kachins, to two major bands of Communist insurgents, 1) the Trotskyite Red Flag movement, and 2) the larger White Flag Communists, who are fragmented into Stalinist and Revisionist wings. Still another insurgent outfit is composed of several hundred Chinese Nationalist soldiers who fled their homeland years ago and have since operated as bandits...