Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educating Congress and the nation as he tries to move U.S. foreign policy ahead in the cold-war battle against Communism. Over four years, Dulles' instincts in this big battle have been unerring. He resisted arguments from both friends and enemies that the U.S. should coexist happily with Stalin's Russia. He backed to the hilt the stout cold warriors of Europe, e.g., Germany's Konrad Adenauer. He threw international Communism into a flap by releasing the text of Khrushchev's historic oration to the 20th Party Congress denouncing Stalin and his works-a text never...
...highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time for a reckoning. But instead of rushing to make the changes demanded...
...Stalin practiced brutal violence towards everything that opposed him . . . was capricious and despotic in character . . . [ordered] mass arrests and deportations of many thousands of people, execution without trial and without normal investigation . . . sanctioned torture and oppression which led to the slandering and self-accusation of innocent people. Whoever opposed Stalin was doomed to ... moral and physical annihilation...
Last week, between swigs of a potent Chinese drink called mou-tai at a Moscow party for Red China's Chou Enlai, Khrushchev summed it all up: "As a Communist fighting for the interests of the working class, Stalin was a model Communist...
...Matching these concessions by trying to reassert Communist control over the farmers, Wladyslaw Gomulka appointed Politburo Member Edward Ochab (once called "a Communist with teeth" by Stalin) to take over the Ministry of Agriculture. Tough and toothy Ochab would have much to chew...