Word: stalinization
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...country's voters turned out last week to elect representatives to the People's Assembly, local councils and the courts. Every single voter chose the Communist Party's slate of candidates. Actually, it was a cliff-hanger compared to the Soviet election in which Joseph Stalin, possibly with the help of some of Gogol's dead souls, is said to have collected 130% of the vote in his home district...
...occasional cranks who throw rocks at the Pontiff. Accordingly, Pope Paul VI last week disbanded three of the Vatican's four corps of brightly uniformed guards because, he said, they "no longer correspond to the needs for which they were founded." As a result, if a latter-day Stalin were to ask scornfully how many divisions the Pope had, the answer would be none, only...
...Roosevelt did not perceive them in this kind of systematic, categorized frame. He still preferred to deal with situations piecemeal, plucking the day's problem out of the tangle of events." Roosevelt's weaknesses in international dealings showed most obviously later, in his attempts to handle Joseph Stalin-but they were evident almost from the beginning. Convinced that the fall of Britain would be a disaster for the U.S., he seemed uncertain about what he could or should do to prevent it. Burns describes F.D.R. making up his mind bit by bit, never getting too far ahead...
...gain no lasting peace," Roosevelt was to say in his fourth inaugural address in January 1945, "if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust -or with fear." It was in that spirit that the President had confronted Joseph Stalin at Teheran in late 1943 and later at Yalta. Sensibly enough, Burns makes no extensive effort to justify Roosevelt's misjudgment of the Soviet dictator's reasonableness. He shows the President in private meetings trying to soften up Stalin with mildly anti-British statements and, along with Churchill, helping to wrest from him a few paper concessions about free...
...most celebrated of the modern Russian songwriters, Alexander Galich, is himself a longtime veteran of prisons and camps-his admirers call him "the Solzhenitsyn of song." In his unmusical but strangely compelling bass voice, Galich sings of the complicity in Stalin's crimes of people who kept silent out of cowardice or self-interest. "We all know silence can be profitable," he sings, "It's golden, after all. It's easy to join the ranks of the rich. Very easy to join the leaders. So easy to join the executioners. Just keep quiet, keep quiet...