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Died. Matyas Rakosi, 78, Hungarian Communist leader during the 1940s and '50s; in Gorky, U.S.S.R. A ruthless Stalinist, Rakosi was known and hated for his brutal skill in disposing of opponents. After Stalin's death, Rakosi slickly adjusted to the new line. He remained in power until 1956, was forced to resign, and just before the Hungarian uprising, fled to the Soviet Union...
...garde" back to Realism is dynamically shown in photos of the Competition for the Palace of Soviets in 1932. All Constructivist entries were rejected in preference to a "social realist" structure, not unlike a giant birthday cake with the crowning one candle to-grow-on in the shape of Stalin...
Dedijer also remains a dedicated Yugoslav. He was prompted to write The Battle Stalin Lost at the time Russia invaded Czechoslovakia. Among other things, he hoped it would serve as a warning to keep hands off his country. After all, look what happened to Stalin...
...been quickly withdrawn. Now it began to mass troops along Tito's borders. The Yugoslavs, ill-equipped with obsolete weapons sold them earlier by the Soviets, braced for invasion. The West was slow to provide military aid, and in the beginning, insists Dedijer, its terms were harsh. Stalin wavered, partly in fear of starting World War III. Then, suddenly in 1953, the Soviet dictator died, and it was all over. Yugoslavs received the news as joyful liberation. Milovan Djilas, one of Tito's closest aides, reflected: "I am glad we struck out at Stalin while he was still...
Unbreakable Bond. It took a sturdy temperament to defy Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Dedijer, now 57, well exemplifies it. A strapping, jovial Serbian, he is in the U.S. this year, tranquilly teaching a course called "Heresy and Dissent" at Brandeis University. But he lived through years of almost inhuman warfare as a Tito partisan in World War II, and still suffers searing headaches from a near fatal war wound. "When my head hurts," the otherwise generous Dedijer admits, "I hate all Germans, including Marx and Goethe...