Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KREMLIN Friend in Need One of the first acts of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin's death was to fly to Red China. Hints dropped subsequently by Khrushchev indicated that Stalin's interference in China's affairs-particularly in the Korean war-had all but brought Sino-Soviet relations to the breaking point. With soft words and smooth promises Khrushchev soothed Chinese feelings. Last week the favor was returned. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was in Moscow to repair with soft words and smooth threats the widening rifts in the Soviet Union...
Commented Spaak dryly: "The European nations are something like scattered chicks when they see a hawk hovering above them-whether in the form of Stalin or Nasser-they tend to come together...
...some thought to be toppling, Nikita Khrushchev was in fine tippling form last week. Tossing off the vodka at New Year's Eve party, Khrushchev told all within hearing that Stalin, whom he had described as a murdering madman only eleven months ago, had in fact done so much good that his mistakes must be overlooked. Cried Nikita: "Stalin was a fighter of imperialists . . . Imperialists call us Stalinists . . . When it comes to fighting imperialists we are all Stalinists...
Great Gathering. The Kremlin leaders could not, of course, re-establish Stalinism, for the simple reason that there was no Stalin, or any man his equal extant, and his successors had, for their own safety, partially dismantled the policy system which had concentrated so much power in the old dictator's hands. But collectively they could make Stalinist noises, which could be read as a rebuke to Tito, and might be depended upon to strike fear in the breasts of restless satellite Communist leaders...
...have much to explain, if only for the comfort of their own vast bureaucracy. To counter rumors that deep splits were threatening in parts of the old Stalinist empire, friendly delegations from China, East Germany and other Communist countries were already gathering in Moscow. In the praises of Stalin being sung by these delegations, however, there was a dichotomy that would not have been present in Stalin...