Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other professional officer of the world's most powerful army. The Soviet Union's most authentic popular hero, he is the general who saved Moscow, led the counteroffensive that relieved Stalingrad, conquered Berlin and briefly ruled it jointly with his U.S. opposite number, General Dwight Eisenhower. But Stalin was jealous of his popularity, banished him to provincial posts for six years. Within 24 hours after the tyrant's death, Zhukov was called back to Moscow...
...case dragged on and on. One judge, intimidated by Communist threats, quit in mid-hearing. At the mosque the Moslem devout tried in vain to ignore the clangor of Red ribaldry outside as they prayed. Life-size pictures of Stalin, Voroshilov and Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit were plastered on the mosque's walls. Then came the final outrage. In the room behind the coffee shop, the Communists installed prostitutes, even let them wash up in the sacred pool reserved for ceremonial ablutions. "If this sickening thing is permitted to go on," stormed one member...
...stated that "there have been very important changes in the structure of Soviet society since the death of Stalin" and that, on the basis of these changes, "Soviet society is moving in the right direction...
Child: My father is Stalin...
...third theme was the blind apotheosis and weaving of a cult around the "beloved communist leaders," especially Lenin and Stalin. This cult was intended to supplant the belief in God, and the cultists went so far on this path that they vested the Red leaders with almost supernatural characteristics...