Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poor to Bow. In achieving all of this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...
...should go, the revised body of Soviet criminal law was put before the Supreme Soviet and swiftly approved. Embodying for the most part changes that have already been adopted in fact, the new code puts the final seal on one of the major developments of Russia's post-Stalin period...
Ever since Stalin's death and Nikita Khrushchev's sensational revelations of the tyrant's betrayals of "Socialist legality." Soviet citizens have been told that they will get formal safeguards under the law. All leading Soviet jurists now brand as "erroneous" the specious justifications by which the late Andrei Vishinsky, Stalin's top prosecutor, 1) upheld police terror, 2) used confessions alone to prove guilt, and 3) when no law applied, invoked other laws "by analogy" to send innumerable men to death or slavery in the theatrical purge trials...
...debate), the new Soviet code lays down that the Soviet citizen may not be punished except for specified crimes and only after what is by Red lights, due process of law. Presumably, that bars the security police from carrying off people, as they carried off millions in Stalin's time," by their own "administrative processes...
...first time since the days when Trotsky led the opposition to Stalin in the '20s, Pravda last week suddenly published the proceedings of the Soviet Communist Party's 253-man Central Committee Plenum while it was going on. By this precedent-smashing maneuver, Nikita Khrushchev sought to broadcast as swiftly and dramatically as possible his speech signaling a shift in Soviet agricultural policy. Acting so abruptly, in such untimely fashion just six weeks before the 21st Party Congress is due to meet, Boss Nikita gave many the idea that he was in something of a sweat...