Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chancelleries the No. 1 item of wonderment was the Soviet Union's unflaggingly active and aggressive foreign policy in the face of convulsive disorder within the Communist Parties. While the West grappled with problems created by Soviet diplomacy, the process of destroying the legend of Joseph Stalin was causing obvious and increasing confusion in Russia and the satellite states. If the Soviet Union had not yet found it necessary to make policy concessions on this account, it was because the West had not yet discovered how to exploit a state of disorder, which may even reflect a critical weakness...
Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
Thus the present "collective leadership" indicated that not only were there deviationists at work in Russia, but showed itself almost as nervous about them as Stalin had been about Bukharin (whom he had executed). Warned Pravda...
Well might free discussion worry the Communist leaders; when they talked of Stalin's great crime, the obvious question to them was, "Where were you?" and the only answer was, "We were afraid." Such a confession of cowardice, and the implied admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes, hardly enhanced their claims to be leaders...
...from prison along with dozens of other postwar Polish Communist leaders. "This does not mean," said Party Secretary Edward Ochab, "that the party subsequently approves of his political opinions. We admit, however, that his arrest was unjustified." Ochab followed through with a slashing attack on the "cunning sophistry" of Stalin, whom "we regarded as the model of revolutionary virtue...