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...survived the Long March largely because Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a secret deal with Stalin: Chiang let the Red Army escape in exchange for the Russians' release of the Generalissimo's son and eventual successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, held hostage in Moscow. Mao, meanwhile, solidified his power by luring a rival Red Army faction to its destruction and burying the survivors alive...
...Joseph Stalin coming back in style? Members of Russia's political élite certainly seem to miss him. Their views received striking expression in a 3,000-word article in the Russian Defense Ministry daily, Krasnaya Zvezda. The author, Marshal Dmitri Yazov, a former Defense Minister who was one of the leaders of the botched 1991 coup against ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, describes the former Soviet dictator not only as "the greatest military leader of all ages and peoples" but as an inspiration for today's Russia. Yazov's article glossed over Stalin's errors - "even geniuses make mistakes...
...Saturday, Bush expressed regret for America’s complicity in the 1945 Yalta pact that divided Europe into spheres of influence between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The president even went so far as to compare the deal, struck by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by western governments before the World War II, and to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact...
...Trafalgar Square. Berlin will host the "Day for Democracy" celebration, a series of speeches and concerts, around the Brandenburg Gate. In Russia, the victory over fascism was the high-water mark of Soviet achievement. But that triumph came at the loss of well over 20 million lives, largely because Stalin's purges had destroyed the Red Army's officer class before the war started. Until June 1941, Germany and Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German...
...predictably fragile. Kennedy thrust at the core of the problem between the leaders when on an impulse he asked Khrushchev, "Do you ever admit you're wrong?" Surprised, Khrushchev clouded up, then angrily pointed out that in the 20th Party Congress he had made his famous speech attacking the Stalin regime. "Those weren't your mistakes," said Kennedy. For the first time Khrushchev had no rejoinder, but his eyes smoldered...