Word: stalinists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...20th and 22nd congresses exposed and condemned Stalin for his heinous crimes against the party and the people. The Stalinist autocratic dictatorship, the tyranny of the security organs that for decades held society in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror, the concentration camps in which millions of innocent people perished, the criminal policy on nationalities under which whole nations were repressed, the blind alley our national economy had reached, the stagnation of science and culture, the low wage level, the low consumption level, the catastrophic housing crisis and many monstrous manifestations of the Stalinist dictatorship were condemned...
Following Khrushchev's ouster, the democratization process was gradually replaced by the restoration of Stalinist methods. Mention must be made of the illegal arrests and illegal sentencings, the absence of publicity and the partiality of the courts, the numerous violations of procedural norms, the wiretapping and the examination of letters. Citizens who dare to voice criticism of any government decree whatsoever are subjected to persecution and are illegally fired from their jobs. For the slightest criticism, Communists are immediately expelled from the party in violation of party regulations. Of late, with ever-increasing frequency, completely healthy people are being...
...broaden his base include former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a socialist, and former Finance Minister Antoine Pinay, a conservative - both of whom paid calls on him last week. The Communists have not fielded a presidential candidate since 1946, and their current choice, a 7 3-year-old Stalinist fixture named Jacques Duclos, drew only 10% of the poll vote -about half the strength they normally show in assembly elections...
America's first student left in the thirties spent most of its energies fighting the New Deal. The alternative it had in mind to the economic chaos of the Depression was the law and order of Stalinist Russia. When it became clear by 1940 that Stalin had duped the radicals, or they had duped themselves, the American Left lost credibility with the next generation of students. The radical thirties gave way to the conservative forties and fifties, and the "silent generation" did not life a finger to save the deauthorized elders from the McCarthy persecutions...
...sought to overthrow Communism; he wanted only, in his words, "to give it a human face" by removing needless abuses and brutalities. For a time, it seemed as if the tall, soft-spoken Slovak might succeed. Channeling a groundswell of discontent among both intellectuals and workers against the Stalinist regime of President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, Dubček in early 1968 managed to overthrow the old order and institute the most far-ranging reforms and freedoms that had ever been attempted in a Communist country...