Word: stalinistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent Dubček's takeover last January, but admitted that others had "misused" units of the army for that purpose. Josef Břešγtanský, 42, deputy president of the Czechoslovak Supreme Court and the man in charge of reviewing the trials of the Stalinist purge victims of the 1950s, apparently took his own life after learning of a newspaper article denouncing his role in a rigged trial during that decade. His body was found hanging from a hornbeam tree in the woods south of Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet...
...when he celebrates his 75th birthday. His haste to push the constitution through at the earliest possible date is an obvious attempt to buttress his own position at a time when change and unrest are sweeping over his two closest Communist neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The last surviving Stalinist ruler in the Soviet bloc, Ulbricht feels ill at ease and isolated. As matters stand today in Eastern Europe, his introduction of such a backward-looking document may make him feel even lonelier...
...free expression. Long-banned films, plays and books are blossoming into production. The country's judiciary has undertaken to review all cases heard in the 1950s in an effort to right legal injustices, and a special commission has been established to rehabilitate the thousands of victims of the Stalinist purge trials of that period. Church and clergy are fast being freed of restraints, and the Communists' phony religious front organization, called the "Peace Priests," is disintegrating. Last week the Czechoslovaks even had their first strike under Communism. Workers at an electrical-appliance factory in Pisek walked...
...revival of a thinly veiled anti-Semitic campaign, it also fired the twelfth Jewish high government official in three weeks. All in all, the drive on students and professors, whom Gomulka called "enemies of the people," constitutes the most sweeping purge of intellectuals in Poland since the Stalinist days just after World...
Aging & Suspicious. What makes Poland's intellectuals so angry is that it was in Poland, after the enlightened, anti-Stalinist regime of Gomulka took power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw's stage bloomed with avant-garde theater-the existentialism of Sartre, the absurdism of Beckett and a home-grown brand of vicious gallows humor. Recently, however, while an aging and suspicious government tolerates less free discussion at home, the Poles have watched in frustration while non conformity flourishes among...