Word: stalinization
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...confront secrets and controversies that as Vice President he had never heard of. He learned that U.S. scientists were about to test something known as an atom bomb, that the Allies had already decided how Germany was to be divided up among them, that Joseph Stalin and Churchill were bitterly at odds about who would rule Poland. And he had to address the diplomats assembling in San Francisco to create an organization to be called the United Nations. "You are to be the architects of the better world," he told them by radio. "In your hands rests our future...
...inhabit his role so utterly--yet in so many different ways. There was the itinerant evangelist with the lit-from-within smile, conducting his never-ending crusade. There was the mystic who, as an observer noted, "makes decisions on his knees." There was the subtle geopolitician who refuted Stalin's famous sneer "How many divisions has the Pope?" at the expense of the dictator's heirs. The moral philosopher who lectured at Harvard. And, finally, the suffering servant. "He was a thoroughly, radically committed Christian disciple who really believed, as he put it, that 'Jesus Christ is the answer...
...late 1994, I and several colleagues traveled to Rome to talk with him. He was still quite vigorous then, and noted during our audience at the Vatican that though he realized that in the past TIME had picked Lech Walesa and Pope John XXIII, the magazine also had selected Stalin and Hitler. One of my colleagues remarked wryly that TIME actually kept two lists--one good and one bad--and that he was on the good list. "I hope I always remain on the good list," said the Pope with a smile...
...presiding mystery was Stalin--cultivator of lemon trees and roses, author of sweet, private kindnesses, a man who proudly displayed his piles of fresh, clean underwear (which he boasted he changed every day!). After Hiroshima, Stalin reflected, "War is barbaric, but using the Abomb is a superbarbarity." This from the man whose Ukrainian famine killed some 10 million, the impresario of the Great Terror, the man who, after Russian soldiers had raped some 2 million women across East Prussia and Germany, asked, "What is so awful about [a soldier's] having...
Montefiore's Stalin, seen with unprecedented intimacy, is a character even stranger, more three-dimensionally mysterious, than the one we have known. A great reader, Stalin once said to the Yugoslav Milovan Djilas, "You have of course read Dostoevsky? Do you see what a complicated thing is man's soul?" Even Dostoevsky could not have invented this Stalin...