Word: stalinist
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...their return to Moscow the junketers faced a full-dress attack by Old Stone-bottom Molotov. Playing up to a Western-minded opportunist like Tito, declared Molotov. was a betrayal of Leninist-Stalinist policies that he, as the last active co-worker of Lenin, could only condemn. It was Old Bolshevik Mikoyan who rose in the secret Central Committee session to answer that the Yugoslavs could and must be drawn back into the Soviet orbit, and to go on to indict past Russian policy-including his own trade deals-for failing to recognize and adjust to nationalist tendencies...
...Mikoyan who made the first forthright anti-Stalin speech. Presumably this was a maneuver planned ahead of time with Khrushchev's connivance to set the stage for the sensational speech by Khrushchev that followed. Yet such are the intricacies of Kremlin politics that the one innocent victim of Stalinist slaughter cited by Mikoyan was Ukrainian Old Bolshevik Stanislav Kosior, whose successor in Kiev, as everybody in the hall knew, was the keen young Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev...
...also warned against authors "who attempt to use mistakes of the past in coming out against leadership of literature and art by party and state." Too many of those who denounced loyal artists of Stalinist times as "varnishers" had since "scavenged in garbage pails and passed this off as life." He was all for "freedom of creative work," Khrushchev protested, despite the "lesson of Hungary, where the counterrevolution used some of these writers for its filthy aims and reminds us to what this can lead." (Original reports of the speech quote Khrushchev as saying that the Hungarians ought to have...
...Path. But somewhere along the twists of the post-Stalinist line. Kantor got off the path to East Germany's future. Like so many other satellite intellectuals, he had kicked off his snowshoes in the cultural thaw that followed Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe...
...factory tours and hat-waving parades through largely deserted streets, it became apparent that the Khrushchev party had not come to Berlin to offer any dazzling scheme for German reunification that might sway West Germany's election against Chancellor Adenauer next month. Quite the contrary. After toasting Old Stalinist Ulbricht's "correct" leadership, Khrushchev told the stooge East German Parliament: "Adenauer's policy of strength may be the path he chooses, but it is full of danger. Hitler also followed a policy of strength, and we know where he ended." Khrushchev made it plain that Russia...