Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, in answer to a specific question on the purge of certain Communist leaders, Hood speculated that Western agents might have planted some of the evidence that led to Stalin's action. "You don't know how they work," he said...
...Communist writers, who referred to "international struggle" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat," Schwarz concluded that "a man who has renounced his conscience has no place on the faculty of a free university." He then cited numerous purge actions in the U.S.S.R., adding that the only thing that prevented Stalin from completing a purge in the Ukraine was a shortage of box cars...
Reuther: The chairman himself exposed, in his exposure of Stalin's crimes, the cult and power of an individual. How could the worker in that period get justice if he could not strike or publicly protest...
...trouble. Specimen: handsome, polished Career Diplomat Charles Eustis Bohlen, 55, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. Tabbed back in 1929 to become a Russian expert, "Chip" Bohlen got to be so fluent in Russian that he was picked to be Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter at the wartime meetings with Stalin. As a result, Bohlen had to carry around the never-quite-erasable mark of Yalta, and grievances about Yalta stirred strenuous Republican opposition on Capitol Hill in 1953 when President Eisenhower named Bohlen Ambassador to the U.S.S.R...
...years, the standard Russian schoolboy uniform resembled a kind of Junior Red Army outfit, with high-buttoned tunic and heavy-visored cap. Since Stalin's death, the uniform has come under increasing fire as unbecoming and warlike. Last week boys in Moscow and Leningrad showed up with the official new look: an open-lapelled jacket, to be worn with shorts or long pants and topped by a casual European beret. The girls, though, will get no break. They go on wearing the same stern pinafore that dates from the time of Catherine the Great...