Word: stalinization
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...business of childhood proceeded, even under the dead hand of communists. Andris and his friends watched prewar American cowboy movies, stole candy and practiced various forms of juvenile delinquency. They traded the usual sexual misinformation. After Stalin's death in 1953, in a citywide funeral march, Andris and his schoolmates were seized by a fit of giggles: "We couldn't stop, perhaps exactly because it was so dangerous...
...Somebody ought to tell the President that the phrase "those who are not with us are against us" was the signature slogan of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Stalin in the 1930s. But it's not simply the unfortunate historical associations that pose the problem; it's the very idea that countries either fall into lockstep with the U.S. or else they're with the bad guys. The typical response in the developing world to the U.S. war on terror has run along these lines: harsh condemnation of bin Laden and unreserved solidarity with...
...Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, but the Soviets (through Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs and others...
...prepares an appropriate response, it should remember that restricting the freedom of citizens to travel is typically a method employed by tyrannical dictatorships and not by prosperous democracies. Imperiously declaring which countries our citizens may not visit demotes us to the likes of Mussolini, Stalin or Kim Il-Sung, who, on a more extreme note, would not let citizens escape the borders of famine-ridden North Korea...
...then, many wars are. In World War II, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made common cause with Stalin--"Uncle Joe" for a brief while, but in the full measure of his life, a bloodstained monster--in the fight against fascism. Even heroes compromise, and Churchill has long been a hero of Bush. When he welcomed five religious leaders to the Oval Office last week, the President pointed out a bust of the British leader. Churchill, Bush once told TIME, was the political leader he most admired, and Card says that since Sept. 11, Bush has spoken of Churchill often...