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Afterwards, Demjanjuk maintains, the Germans transferred him to the anti-Stalinist Ukrainian National Liberation Army. He says that he then concealed his military record in 1951 so he could enter the U.S. He settled in Ohio, where he worked in a Ford plant, raised a family and became an American citizen. He was stripped of his citizenship in 1986, and sent to Israel for trial...
...result has been that North Korea has been under little or no pressure to moderate its attitude toward South Korea. Given Kim Il Sung's desire to unify Korea under his own brutal leadership, progress may be impossible until he passes from the scene. But even Kim, a pure Stalinist, has shown a willingness to open more lines of communication with Seoul, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo himself predicts a North-South summit soon...
...absolute power over the accused. The courts were the dictator's primary instrument of mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police in the 1940 assassination of his exiled rival Leon Trotsky, finally acknowledging that the killer was acting on Stalin's orders...
...common agreement, Walesa won easily. He charged that opportunities for radical change exist in Poland but said, "We are not making use of them. It seems what we are doing is still salvaging the remnants of a Stalinist model." The next day even Communist Party officials gave him admiring reviews. Said one: "It was a smashing victory for Walesa. I would give him an 8-to-2 advantage." To many Poles, his appearance seemed to confer official recognition on Solidarity and could be a catalyst for renewed enthusiasm for the union...
Newspaper newsrooms are often unhappy places, but few are regularly likened to Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. Such were the favored metaphors among staffers of the New York Times under the iron grip of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal. With a hair-trigger temper and skin as thin as a sheet of newsprint, Rosenthal was known to be convivial one moment, then, at the slightest miscue, fly into a rage. Those who unquestioningly did his bidding thrived; many of those who crossed him made their careers outside the hallowed offices at Times Square...