Word: stalinization
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...vast portraits of Marx and Engels, along with Stalin and Mao, in Tien an Men square somehow confirmed the conviction that it was absurd to let these people, or their like, seize the political initiative from us. When Americans take to sandals and posting up posters to Hindu divines, it is understood that adolescence is in a difficult phase. But what in the name of God were these half-acre portraits of hirsute German bourgeois doing in the main square of a Mongol capital. Were these people grown-ups here?...Why not, then, explain to their parents that Marx...
...Mikoyan, 82, Soviet politician who amazingly survived nearly 50 years of his nation's purges and upheavals and was briefly President of the U.S.S.R. (1964-65); after a long illness. Son of an Armenian carpenter, Mikoyan studied for the priesthood before joining the Bolsheviks in 1915. One of Stalin's most trusted ministers, Mikoyan became known both as a tough, wily trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev...
Loyal to Marx and Lenin, Communist Poland officially promotes atheism. In his most famous observation on religion, Karl Marx argued: "It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness." Lenin and Stalin systematically sought to suppress and eventually eliminate religion from their Communist society...
...creating for the first time a device for liquefying helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments at home, Kapitsa helped shed light on the extraordinary behavior of supercold helium-helium II-which acts as a perfect fluid, so lacking in viscosity that...
...Nazis' scheme is to smuggle to the Soviets lists of Britons who have supported the German war effort. Their hope is to inflame Stalin's deep distrust of his allies. The plan goes agley when the documents, hand-carried to Sweden, are used instead to blackmail English industrialists...