Word: stalinize
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...often ugly truth about its past, with Mikhail Gorbachev emulating some of Khrushchev's reforms and with the "special pensioner" of Petrovo- Dalneye undergoing a posthumous rehabilitation -- TIME acquired the missing tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during the Cuban missile crisis...
When I attended the 17th Party Congress in 1934, we were told that only six people at the congress ((out of 1,966)) had cast votes against Stalin. Years later, it emerged that actually the figure was more like 260, which is incredible if you take into account Stalin's position and his vanity...
...Stalin knew perfectly well who might have voted against him -- certainly not the likes of Khrushchev, who had risen through the ranks under Stalin and who deified him. No, Stalin understood that it was the old cadres from Lenin's time who were displeased with...
During the 17th Congress, a party secretary from the North Caucasus went to see Kirov, the Leningrad party chief, and said, confidentially, "There's talk among the old cadres that the time has come to replace Stalin with someone who will treat those around him with more decency. The people in our circle say you should be made the General Secretary...
Kirov went to Stalin and told him everything. Stalin listened and replied simply, "Thank you, Comrade Kirov...