Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the ever-humming grapevines of the Communist world and through the chancelleries of the West flashed an electrifying report: just a year after Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, too, had made a "secret" speech, in fact two of them. The speeches could not match Khrushchev's in sensation, but the stir that they are making in Communist lands (Westerners have yet to get a full text) shows that if Mao is in fact bidding for "ideological equality" with Moscow, he will have eager supporters in the satellites, whose leaders are anxious...
...speech, the 63-year-old Chinese ruler, in a long, theoretical harangue to 800 ideological commandos, denied two fundamental propositions of Soviet ideology: 1) that even in a Communist state the class struggle must continue until the day when a completely Socialist society is established (Stalin, justifying his bloody purges in the '30s, said that the struggle must in fact get increasingly violent, as enemies of the people grow more desperate); 2) that there can be no real conflict in a Communist state between the people and their rulers, since the party automatically embodies the will of the masses...
Ironically, the ultimate causes of Christian Democrat Segni's downfall were de-stalinization and Russian brutality in Hungary. As the strength of the Italian Communist Party waned under these blows, so did the only real bond between the four center parties-the obvious need for "democratic solidarity" against Communism. Two months ago, convinced that the time had come to look out for its own interests in next year's general election, the tiny Republican Party withdrew its support from the government. The Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found...
Faithful to the dogma of his masters, Stalin refused to recognize that prostitution flourished in the Soviet Union (he, says a recent Communist commentator, "professed the famous principle that if the facts do not conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism...
...Pals. Two of the Reds' most ambitious attempts at undermining the church were the Patriot Priests and Pax, both of them originated by Ivan Serov, head of the NKVD in Poland during the Stalin period. Serov set up two Trojan horses to take over the church, one loaded with docile ("patriot") priests, one with laymen...