Word: stalinist
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...balance of power? Was that what was meant by "collectivity of leadership"? In the milieu of bloody totalitarianism-his own creation-such an arrangement seemed like the product of a failing mind. Nothing was to keep so smart and faithful a student of the Stalinist method as Georgy Malenkov from eliminating one, two or ten thousand...
...Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin suggested that the Montreux Convention should be modified to allow Soviet bases to be built in the area in order to protect the Black Sea mouth. The result of Stalinist bluntness has been seven years of Russo-Turkish hostility and Turkey's growing friendship for the West, culminating in full membership in NATO and a military alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia. In last week's note, Russia renounced its desire for bases on the Dardanelles, spoke only of a friendly solution to the Dardanelles problem. The Turkish government was reported ready to participate...
Your April 13 summarization "The Danger Signals" paints our educators as Caspar Milquetoasts who are afraid of their own shadows. One of the prerequisites of the teaching profession used to be moral courage; another used to be intellectual honesty . . . Marxists can have moral courage, as the victims of Stalinist purges have demonstrated. But our "pinko-to-magenta" pedagogues are completely lacking in moral courage; they appear to be neither fish (democrats: believers in government by the people) nor fowl (Marxists: believers in government by misanthropy...
...Ideology. Stalin learned something from the purges: the power that ideas have over men's minds. Since the death of Lenin he had repeated, to the point of nausea, the old Leninist slogans. Now he began to develop the myth of Leninist-Stalinist infallibility. Every Soviet writer, poet, musician and painter was expected to devote his energies to enlarging the myth by incessant repetition. The highest peak in Russia was named for him, as were at least 15 towns, innumerable factories and streets. Copies of his collected works were printed in scores of millions. A new metal was called...
...long arm of Uncle Sosso still throws enough of a scare into Budu to keep him changing residences frequently. At present he is living on the outskirts of Paris, under an assumed name. Seven years of Western freedom have given him a more critical slant on the Stalinist regime, and he is busy on a gloves-off treatment of Uncle Sosso, to be called Stalin Told...