Word: stalinist
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...They all get a little of Gomulka's time. At 8 o'clock one night last week a batch of students, workers and farmers walked in, spent three hours getting answers to questions. Typical questions: When do the Russian troops leave? What guarantees do we have against Stalinist activities in Poland? His answer to the last: "You are the guarantee. Without you young people I would not stay one minute...
...leading members collaborated with the Gestapo on this basis, tipping it off. But this did not prevent the Nazis from killing the Communists, and after several of the Moscow importations had disappeared, the leadership of the underground fell to Gomulka. There is no evidence that he pursued the Stalinist policy of doublecrossing others in the underground, and for this reason he is grudgingly respected by some Poles who loathe his politics. Those who knew him at this time say that he fought the Nazis with courage and resolution...
Molotov has also been made official arbiter of Soviet culture, and at a recent meeting of Soviet writers, artists and critics he reaffirmed the old Stalinist doctrine of "Socialist realism." No art is "good" or "worthwhile" unless it serves a positive ideological purpose, said he. In other words, Molotov was ordering an ideological re-audit, which the sorry Soviet system badly needs. But it is hard to see how playwrights, authors and critics can do much but keep quiet, or lapse into the dull old dogmatic ruts, until the Soviet leadership itself gathers its wits and decides where...
...trying to emulate heavy-handed Soviet official art, Communist (and Unreconstructed Stalinist) Rivera too often turned out work that, in years gone by, he could have painted with his toes. His versions of Polish bricklayers rebuilding Warsaw and of collective brigades clearing ice from a waterfront in Czechoslovakia are drab and hackneyed. Like his politics. much of his new work bears the overwhelming burden of the Communist line...
Died. Andre Marty, 70, tough, skull-cracking old-line Stalinist, Comintern secretary (1935-43) and onetime No. 3 man in the French Communist hierarchy, who was read out of the party after he balked at Russia's 1952 peace offensive; in Toulouse, France. After Roughneck Marty caught the party's eye, he was elected in 1924 to the Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist...