Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
...that he has ever let fly at the West. In between, 86 Soviet delegates and 45 representatives of foreign Communist parties paid telling tribute to "the distinguished activity," "the tremendous organizing work," "the majestic firmness" of their leader, who beamed at the sycophant praise as broadly as ever Joseph Stalin...
Five years of wrangling with the taxman ended profitably for Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, ailing in a Moscow hospital. The Internal Revenue Service at last agreed with steadfast-Marxist Robeson that his 1953 Stalin Peace Prize of $25,000 was a gift rather than a payment for services, so he will not have to pay $9,655 in back income taxes after...
...Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety...
...Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt, Churchill and especially Stalin were mankind's greatest scourges, and because the Jews deserved to be exterminated." ¶Señora Orozco: "My husband was not only a good man who loved his family and thought of them constantly, but he was always relaxed at home, always serene, irresistibly humorous, and in every way normal...