Word: stalinist
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While Yeltsin still enjoys public support, there is no shortage of would-be successors trying to stir up discontent and resistance. Opposition groups range from communist movements nostalgic for Stalinist strong-arm rule to ultra-right nationalist parties preaching Russian imperial supremacy. Increasingly, these two have edged toward forming a common front against Yeltsin in the name of "saving the fatherland." Both have been courting the former Soviet army; despite internal divisions, the 3.7 million-strong military remains the only force capable of toppling the government. Another threat may come from the ranks of democrats who carried Yeltsin to power...
...atmosphere is reminiscent of Stalinist Russia, when no one could be trusted. Words of dissent are rare, especially in the presence of foreigners. A man selling watches with a picture of Saddam on the face looks carefully around before he mumbles, "They're just not popular anymore." At a dinner party in a Baghdad home, the guests do not feel comfortable talking to two visiting Americans without turning the music up loud. Only when they are confident that the music conceals their words from hidden microphones will they quiz the Westerners about U.S. policy in the gulf...
...executive] board's tactics are reminiscent of the Stalinist purges of the 1930's," Jeremy Sevareid '92, then program director of the club, wrote to The Crimson in May, 1991. "Their actions have...splintered Republicans on campus...
First, consider the consequentialist argument, which is rooted in the knowledge that closed-door trials are Stalinist stuff. Abuses of justice breed easily when nobody knows that the judges are doing. Keeping trials open and public does not ensure that convictions and acquittals will not be based on arbitrary whim. Without reporting on courtroom activities, the guardians of justice are themselves unguarded...
They tell me that back in '37, a troika ((a three-man kangaroo court common during the purges of the Stalinist terror)) could decide a person's fate. And now a troika is deciding the fate of entire nations...