Word: stalinists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retire to their nicely furnished rooms in the belief that things had been patched up. But back in Bucharest, Ceausescu decided not to let matters rest there, demanded that the entire meeting vote an apology to Rumania. When the apology was not forthcoming, Niculescu-Mizil denounced Russia's "Stalinist tactics." Then the Rumanians walked out and within a few hours were bound for Bucharest...
...courtroom. "A legally conducted and organized court," they said, "need not fear the glare of publicity, but should actually welcome it." Two brothers, Biologist Yuri Vakhtin and Writer Boris Vakhtin, denounced the trial's "abnormal atmosphere" and "court violations." Noting that their father had been killed in a Stalinist purge in the 1930s, they said that they could not accept a return to that "terrible time of lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took the stand at the trial, complained in a letter about Komsomolskaya Pravda's distortions of his testimony. Writer Ginzburg...
Toughness & Arrogance. The plan to kill Park was Premier Kim's own idea, as in all likelihood was the order to seize the Pueblo. A Stalinist who has kept North Korea in a state of permanent purge, Kim has acted In recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors...
...controlling Europe's bread basket and the Black Sea oil wells. After the battle, the Soviet armies paused only a few times before they had driven the Germans back to Germany. The victory also restored much respectability to a Communist movement tarnished in the 1930s by the Stalinist purges and the cynical Hitler-Stalin pact; the party signed up many new believers who mistakenly credited Communism-and not simply patriotism-for inspiring the Russian victory at Stalingrad...
...outcome of the Czechoslovak power struggle was a singular victory for liberal forces throughout Eastern Europe. Novotný's fall reduces the number of outright Stalinist rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes...