Word: stalinist
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...pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes they can stave off a reckoning with the new. Only Rumania, under the tyrannosaurus-like leadership of Nicolae Ceausescu, stubbornly pursues the Stalinist agenda without obstruction. As each country feels its way through this difficult period, the competing ambitions are putting considerable strain on the bloc...
...father vanished into the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, but Stolar lived on. He served in combat with the Soviet army in World War II, but he retained his U.S. citizenship. After the war he worked as a translator and announcer for Radio Moscow. In 1975 Stolar got permission to emigrate to Israel. But as he and his family approached their plane, Soviet officialdom snatched them back -- and covered them in bureaucratic darkness until President Reagan took up their cause...
...pyramid of funeral wreaths lay beside the wooden coffins in Heroes' Square. There, last week, more than 200,000 mourners gathered in downtown Budapest to bury the Stalinist ghost in Hungarian history. Church bells tolled, and the people sang the Szozat, the emotionally charged hymn of the nation's repeated triumphs over foreign domination...
...suppression of the democracy movement, the government lost much of its authority, leaving itself isolated and condemned at home and abroad. There are even fears that Chinese Communism may be reaching backward for a discredited tool. Warned a Western diplomat: "Everything that has gone on has been preparation for Stalinist terror. Deng Xiaoping is an old Communist who , believes that when you don't observe party discipline, you are dead...
Frankly, I don't understand Bush. If he thinks we are going to get a neo- Stalinist successor to Gorbachev, how much better it would be for that successor to have far fewer weapons. I do not think he is waiting around for Gorbachev to be overthrown by students the way students are doing it in China. So I don't see what's holding Bush back, except that over the past 40 years the U.S. has, narrowly speaking, profited from a divided and armed Europe. It has given us a lot of political and military leverage. It is clear...