Word: stalinize
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...Young soldiers wearing World War II Red Army uniforms followed, carrying vintage rifles and submachine guns. Behind them, enveloped in clouds of white diesel smoke, rumbled armor and artillery from the '40s: T-34 tanks, SU-100 assault guns and truck-mounted Katyusha rockets once known as "Stalin organs...
Americans are usually gentler and more metaphorical than some other peoples in consigning their public figures to forgettery. Joseph Stalin slaughtered a generation or two of Soviet leadership. He dealt out the ultimate obscurity: death. It was part of his theory of management. Sometimes he invited prospective victims to his all-night dinners (about 10 p.m. to dawn) and later had the NKVD take them off to be shot. One ruler in Central Africa is said to have murdered hundreds of his people and sometimes eaten them for supper...
...Allied powers were struggling to gain ground in World War II when Franklin Roosevelt journeyed to Tehran for a meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months...
...family have been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages are being emptied--some destroyed--in an operation that President Reagan, with considerable exaggeration, last week described as "Stalin's tactic of Gulag relocation...
...nice guy" strategy was used by "Uncle Joe" Stalin during and after World War II, and by Khrusehes during his famous U.S. tour, but these flashes of life from the Kremlin have left us with little more than a few photo opportunities and some anecdotes for a presidential memoir...