Word: stalinist
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...Troubleshooter. Last week control of labor and wages was put in the hands of a troubleshooter who shoots only Big Trouble. One of the few original Bolsheviks to survive the purges, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, chairman of the new output committee, worked nis passage across the Stalinist years by performing a score of grisly jobs for the old dictator. During the early collectivizations he forcibly put down peasant risings against the regime and punished whole areas by seizing foodstuffs and creating artificial famines...
...China's first top-level Communist purge. The terms of the denunciation closely followed the Russian pattern, but if the Chinese leaders had intended to follow up expulsion with a Stalinist-type public confession of guilt by Kao, they were defeated by an old Chinese custom. Like many a great imperial mandarin before him, Kao took the proverbial way out of his situation: he committed suicide. Thus Kao Kang, said the communique, showing that the Chinese Communists fully understood his protest, "expressed his ultimate betrayal of the party...
...Life. Malenkov had stepped into the premiership bellowing the slogan, "A new life for all." There were to be more and better houses, amnesty for political prisoners, an abundance of consumer goods, honest art and, above all, peace. It was an obvious tactic: after a generation of Stalinist austerity and terror, the leader who could deliver these things might consolidate himself with the masses. As a matter of fact, everyone climbed on the "new life" bandwagon, including Khrushchev himself...
Vishinsky's next job was to erect a huge edifice of legal theory rationalizing and justifying the absolute sovereignty of the Stalinist state. An innocent world has been inclined to give him high marks as a jurist, but Vishinsky himself, as he was able to do, once summed up the whole of this effort: "I do not believe in abstract justice...
Gorin likes Feodor, and before long Novikov's subtle brand of doubletalk has the old writer naively whitewashing Stalinist tyranny by eulogizing Russia's mad despot, Ivan the Terrible. The Kremlin bravos. But Gorin is heartsick at betraying his own values, and makes indiscreet remarks about the regime. From Veria, Feodor receives new orders, and he carries them out by smashing Gorin's head against a radiator until it is a bloody pulp...