Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davy Crockett. There are undoubtedly few people who realize that this is a typical bourgeois, capitalistic, warmongering act in which the authors have-as usual-taken credit for an invention by the great Russian people. We present our original translation of this great Soviet folk song -Ballad of Joey Stalin...
...Niko, who had just arrived home from three years in Dachau, already had a Czech wife and a son. But such encumbrances can be voided when a girl Communist is ambitious, or when the man is Niko Zachariades, Communist boss in Greece and special protégé of Stalin. Niko deserted his wife and shortly after, Roula's high-school teacher was picked up by the Greek police and sentenced to six years in jail...
...Came Stalin's attempt to grab Greece, and the lovers took to the hills, where Niko raised the banner of bloody civil war. While Niko burned peasant villages and liquidated the old-line Communists who stood in his way to power, Roula, in her low-cut blouses and skin-tight riding pants, was promoted to commissar and recognized as the "Boss's Wife." Even in the hills, she was always well groomed, and in the words of one Communist deserter, "wore the only pair of nylons to be found in northern Greece...
...Named Joseph. But as the Greek army, with the help of U.S. General James Van Fleet, smashed at the hard-pressed Communist guerrillas in the mountains, Niko and his Roula returned to the safety and comfort of Communist Bucharest, where they set themselves up in an apartment next to Stalin Park in the fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven...
Because Tito had quarreled and split with Stalin largely on account of Russian interference in Yugoslav army affairs, the U.S. did not press the right that it reserves, under all military assistance treaties, to examine the use to which its military aid is put. But now that the time has come to repair or replace some of the hardware, the U.S. Military Assistance Section in Belgrade (about 40 officers and men) asked to take a look at the Yugoslav troops and installations to measure replacement needs. The Yugoslavs stonily refused...