Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East European satellites, Bulgaria turns most slavishly around the big Red Moscow star. When Stalin ordered a purge of Titoists in the '40s, Bulgaria's Communists obediently hanged one of their number, Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov, after a show trial at which witnesses asserted he was a traitor who served not only Tito but U.S. Minister Donald Heath. In outrage, Washington broke off relations with Bulgaria...
Graduation Gift. Both men took their doubts to be washed away in Spain's blood, but the pilgrimage worked for neither. They drifted back to France, trailing disillusion both with Red brutality and inefficiency. In 1939, after the Stalin-Hitler pact, the French interned Regler at Vernet, a camp set up for political exiles. As usual, pity for others rather than for himself marked his term there. He tried to ease the lot of some Orthodox Jews, and indiscriminately, of anyone in trouble. "Why do you worry about those clochards?", Fellow Inmate Arthur Koestler asked loftily. Helping "bums...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the conscious intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The second installment of the late Sergei Eisenstein's lugubrious but magnificent film chronicle of the reign of the Russian Czar bears little resemblance to the historical figure, is frankly and cunningly intended to represent Stalin...