Word: stalinization
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...World War II. He served as an artillery officer in East Prussia and Germany, was decorated twice for bravery, and then sentenced to ten years in a labor camp hauling logs and laying bricks. Tass called his offence a "baseless political charge," probably incurred by speaking derogatorily of Stalin. In 1953 Stalin died and Solzhenitsyn was released from camp and exiled to East Asia with millions of other political prisoners. Following Krushchev's repudiation of the Stalin regime in 1956 Solzhenitsyn returned home to Rostov and was permitted to reach mathematics at the local grammar school. There he started...
...this endurance. Accused of being a spy after escaping from German occupied territory. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sentenced to ten years in a special Siberian labor camp for "class dangerous elements", like the camp Karaganda where Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. Solzhenitsyn considers only the day of one victim of Stalin's forced industrialization and intensification of totalitarian control. But it is estimated that about four million people died in the labor camps between 1927 and 1940, not by premeditated genocide but from the disease, fatigue, and starvation that Ivan Denisovich suffers in every one of his three thousand six hundred...
...Germany. Russia or Cuba had an FBI directed by J. Edgar Hoover, the chances are that such names as Hitler, Stalin and Castro would never have made headlines, and that this world would be a better place to live...
Gruening said, "The Nixon Administration is guilty of genocide" just as "Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. We do it in the name of freedom and liberation, adding hypocrisy to all our other sins...
...Stalin's success story was dimmed slightly by his failures in Finland, Iran and Turkey. But they were secondary goals. Only one unresolved issue glared on the map in Stalin's office: Germany. To Russia, as to France, indelible memories of German belligerence necessitated top priority for the German question. Ulam sees this preoccupation with Germany as a continuous thread running through postwar Soviet foreign policy. In March, 1947, Molotov suggested a reunified Germany, but the plan was overlooked by the U.S. The 1948 Berlin blockade was not a grasp for a city of 2 million people. Ulam suggests...