Word: stalinized
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...mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest poet of the Soviet era. Mayakovsky doesn't seem to have been much of a playwright, however...
Convinced Marxist. The Spanish war also turned Neruda into a convinced Communist, though political engagement did not always inspire him to great writing: during the 1940s and 1950s, for instance, he produced a series of slavish, gushing poems in praise of Stalin...
...contrary, Mr. Swanson continues to espouse the philosophy of collectivism with impressive consistency. I must therefore await his next editorial, which will, no doubt, endorse Stalin's extermination of the kulaks or Hitler's immolation of six million Jews. Robert Campbell...
...symbolism was unintended, but powerful nonetheless. A little more than six weeks after his death, the government of East Germany laid to final rest the ashes of Walter Ulbricht, who for more than a generation was the country's stern, Stalin-like dictator. The very next day East Germany was admitted to the United Nations, receiving the universal legitimacy and recognition that Ulbricht had both sought and feared...
...solution does not always work. The dictatorship of the lower orders can become a warped government by a bureaucratic elite. Josef Stalin set out to build socialism, but he turned it into a new form of oppression hardly more acceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid ceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid Brezhnew, the final product, has as little in common with Lenin or Trotsky as does Richard Nixon...