Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb, the most sacred spot in Communist Moscow, Gagarin was greeted by the Presidium, the powerful ruling body of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev made a long speech comparing him to Columbus, naming him a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarding him the brand-new title of First Hero Cosmonaut. The new major, neat in his grey and blue uniform, spoke with admirable poise, the party line rolling easily off his tongue. He thanked the party, the government and Premier Khrushchev for trusting him, a simple Soviet pilot, with the first flight to outer space...
While his style is different, "Khrushchev's structure of rule is very similar to Stalin's.'' Like Stalin, he holds full power to install and remove the members of the Party Presidium and the Secretariat. There is no convincing evidence that his choices for these posts are "determined by any factions or cliques operating outside his control...
Mirage No. 2: With the "atmosphere of terror" largely lifted since Stalin's death, the Soviet system is now evolving toward full freedom of opinion...
...more difficulties in preserving political stability and an adequate measure of ideological uniformity. These growing strengths, not offset by equivalent new weaknesses, will enable its leaders to devote greater rather than smaller resources and political determination to achieving the world-wide purposes that have been proclaimed by Lenin and Stalin and now by Khrushchev...
...notion that obesity is due to weak will power is particularly ironic in view of recent political history," Mayer added. "This is the age of the Obese Dictator--Khrushchev, Peron, Tito, Stalin, and Castro are cases in point." He cited Winston Churchill as another example of a willful fat man. "It is amusing," he concluded, "that The Vallant Years, a current TV series on Churchill, is being sponsored by Metrecal...