Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to identify the owners of the bushy upper lips in TIME, April 21? My guesses (from top to bottom): Mikoyan, Stalin, Hitler, Niven, Cantinflas...
...application that had been cautiously courted for years. When the World Council of Churches was being formed, invitations were sent to the pre-Reformation churches-Roman Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodox-but only the Greek Orthodox Church accepted. The death of Stalin gave the leaders of the World Council new hope, and they warmed the fraternal atmosphere with a delegation to Russia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1960) and a continuing campaign of discreet liaison...
Instead, Hoxha went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland...
...pursuits-war.* German soldiers used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...
...that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been utterly inept. In fact, suggests Pushkov (and Author Beal) in a pointed reversal of cliches...