Word: stalinize
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...dismay of the authorities, many Soviet young people have turned away from the stuffy ideal of the committed Young Communist Leaguer that was fostered by their elders. Now two generations beyond the terror-filled Stalin era and the suffering of World War II, the young are bent on having fun in all the ways taught by Western movies, visitors and foreign radio broadcasts. In and around Moscow last week, youngsters were boardsailing, skateboarding and hang gliding; practicing yoga, karate, kung fu and fad diets; exchanging Bruce Lee posters; disco dancing; listening to tapes of Diana Ross and ABBA; and going...
Only the mozzarella substitute in the pizza had a distinctively Soviet flavor; it was suluguni, a cheese from Soviet Georgia that used to be one of Joseph Stalin's favorite snacks...
...were in jubilant spirits. From a mountain overlooking the valley, we could clearly see the Soviet camp. It had a triangular perimeter, with six self-propelled howitzers lined up neatly in a row, and next to them eight BM-21 mobile rocket launchers, well known to military experts as Stalin organs...
Each journalist recounts horrific incidents of government waste, incompetent planning and incoherent design. China was once Joseph Stalin's most pupil, and though it broke with more than a decade ago, the legacy of Soviet "intensive industrialization" Butterfield cites the all-too-typical $13.3 billion mill designed to manufacture 3 million tons of steel a year. When the Chinese turned on the switch, they found the plant demanded more electric than the entire surrounding could produce...
Sherwin: The major point that I would make about the...missed opportunity that I point out specifically during the war--Niels Bohr's suggestion to Roosevelt and Churchill that they approach Stalin with an assurance that nuclear weapons would not be used against the Soviet Union after the war and that what we want to do is get together and start building a plan for the international control of atomic energy...