Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captive in the hands of the Western Allies. But they, having observed that the Nuremberg trials generated sympathy for the Nazis, decided this time to adopt a different plan: Stalin was handed over to a committee of eminent Quakers, who contended that even he, by the power of love, could be led to repentance and to the life of a decent citizen...
...From "Stalin's Nightmare--Amor Vincit Omnia" in Bertrand Russell's Nightmares of Eminent Persons...
...interesting to learn from your cover story about the Soviet President [Feb. 21] that Leonid Brezhnev is a Ukrainian like Khrushchev. This may predispose them to feel more "European" than was the case with the preceding Red rulers, since Lenin was a Tartar, Trotsky was Jewish, and Stalin came from the Caucasus...
Moreover, Khrushchev is the first Red czar to have been a laborer, a manual worker. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were intellectuals. Thus the two Ukrainians have a state of mind fundamentally different from Stalin's and Lenin's-less doctrinaire, more grassroots...
...time was Soong Ching-ling, widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of modern China, and sister of Mme. Chiang Kaishek. A rheumatic lady of 74, Soong Ching-ling fell out with her family during China's civil war, stayed on the mainland after the Communist takeover, won a Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, now lives in relative obscurity in Shanghai. Cheerfully, she waved at the crowds in Colombo, joined Chou at dinners and receptions, and made small talk with Mrs. Bandaranaike...