Word: stalinist
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...mainly show how good Gromyko's book might have been had he not chosen to keep his tail between his legs. Memoirs is too often a turgid history cum travelog speckled with diplomatic slavishness. "Staff at the Foreign Ministry did not discuss the purge trials," he says of the Stalinist era. "As diplomats, we avoided the subject." As a result, his book is destined for the dustheap of famous-people-I-have-met books...
...still unable to define this problem and rely instead on such terms as nationalism, conflict and separatism. They still don't have enough courage to use the appropriate words, for we are witnessing the crash of the last world empire, coupled with the downfall of what was most Stalinist in the Stalinist system...
Today we are confronted with a Stalinist map of the country, and have used it as the basis for carrying out perestroika, accepting this unified landmass as a historic entity. Our tensions spring from an inadequate understanding of a most crucial fact: the U.S.S.R. is not a country, nor is it a state. The Eurasian territory that is marked as such on the maps is a world of worlds made of different cultures and civilizations. It is a neighborhood of states and nations that are tired of their colonial and colonizing past, that have been tortured and humiliated by Stalinist...
...sects can match the semantics of RCP, however. Still wedded to a doctrine of firm support for the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe, other self-described communists are not giving up support for the discredited regimes...
...most Stalinist regime is more democratic and free than any capitalist country," says WWP's Doares in defense of the deposed and executed Nicolai Ceausescu of Romania. "What is dictatorship for one class is democracy for another class; what is democracy for the rich is dictatorship for the poor...