Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Janos dreamed of a still larger meeting that might finish with a demonstration in Parliament Square, demanding that Imre Nagy, who had been Premier during the "new look" period after Stalin's death, be reinstated. But the Central Committee got wind of their plans and suppressed the Petofi Club. Janos despaired: "We are too young to be followed by the people. We are unknown. We must start organizing and think in terms of years of underground work." Janos had been excited by the news from Poland of Gomulka's successful defiance of Khrushchev, and sensed that there was a corresponding...
...piled into barricades, great buildings had been reduced to rubble, and fires still burned in others. There was not a whole pane of glass in the city. Nor was there a single Red star to be seen, or a Soviet monument. Even the boots of the gigantic statue of Stalin had been smashed to bits. The monstrous leonine head, spat on and befilthed, had long since disappeared...
...were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced to flee to Vienna (he later turned up in Russia, where Stalin executed...
...these deplorable tendencies on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. And when it came to pinpointing the nature of Tito's heresy, the Chinese Communists did not hesitate to make a charge that no Russian leader currently dares to make in public. "In our opinion," said the Central Committee, "Stalin's mistakes take second place to his achievements . . . [Tito] took up a wrong attitude when he set up so-called Stalinism, the Stalinist course and Stalinist elements as objects of attack . . . This can only lead to a split in the Communist movement...
...77th birthday (Dec. 21) of the onetime "supreme genius of all mankind," unmourned Joseph Stalin, went unobserved in the U.S.S.R. Not a single official speech, parade or party...