Word: stalinist
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...Poland, despite its overwhelming Catholic population, has no tradition of school prayers But, except for a brief Stalinist antireligious period following World War II, crucifixes supplied by various sources have been classroom fixtures...
...enigmatic as the fleeting smile he showed now and again in official photographs. Given Andropov's years at the helm of the Committee for State Security (in Russian, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or KGB), some of his countrymen feared that he would turn out to be a reconstructed Stalinist, intent on imposing order on a society grown lax and corrupt in Brezhnev's final years. Others wishfully thought that he might emerge as a liberal, eager to improve relations with the West and reform the Soviet Union's cumbersome system of centralized planning. Andropov proved to be neither...
...they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence. A simple matter, but a basic one. We will do anything to stay around, and to keep others around as well, by way of monuments, ceremonies, books. During the Stalinist terror, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stood in line at the Leningrad prison off and on for a period of 17 months. One day she was approached by a woman "with lips blue from the cold," who, like Akhmatova, was waiting for news of the fate of someone...
...blow up the world. Students opposed to U.S. militarism must go beyond a moral revulsion of U.S. policy to take a side against the anti-Soviet war drive. The U.S. sees the hand of "Soviet aggression" behind every movement for social justice anywhere in the world because despite the Stalinist bureaucracy, the USSR remains a workers state capable of thwarting U.S. imperialism's appetites from the Middle East to the Caribbean. Ultimately, fake leftists like the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and Unity, side with Reagan and Weinberger in their war on Russia. When Weinberger railed against the Russians...
...Army in Afghanistan is the one hope Afghan women have for emancipation from illiteracy, the bride price and enslavement to feudal tribesmen. It is unfortunately not true that Cuba and the USSR are supplying Salvadoran leftists and Nicaraguan Sandinistas with arms. Here you have an example of the Stalinist bureaucracies betraying revolution in Central America in order to "appease" U.S. imperialism. As Trotskyists, we want to see a change in the Soviet Union and the other deformed workers' states, but not with Reagan's nuclear warheads, but through a workers' political revolution which ousts the bureaucrats and restores workers' democracy...