Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey German summer of 1948 Joseph Stalin reached out to strangle helpless Berlin, and U.S. planners, although caught unawares, responded with a monument to man's ingenuity: the Berlin Air Lift. In late summer 1956 Western Europe faces a challenge that dwarfs Stalin's Berlin blockade. The great question: How, if Egypt's President Nasser closes down the Suez Canal-either by force or bungling-will Western Europe get the oil that is blood to its industry and life to its economy? The answer: a Suez Sea Lift...
...international Stalin Prizes "for strengthening peace among nations" ($25,000 and a gold medal) will henceforth be called "Lenin Prizes for Strengthening International Friendship." Even previous Stalin Prizewinners (e.g., U.S. Novelist Howard Fast, 1953; Italian Left Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, 1951) will receive certificates renaming their awards...
...Newspaperman John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, long banned in the Soviet Union,presumably on personal order of Joseph Stalin, was restored to the index of approved reading. Reed's enthusiastic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution (on his death in Moscow in 1920 the Bolsheviks gave him a hero's burial in the Kremlin wall) omits all mention of the role played by the then obscure Stalin...
Sport & Hearst. The Communists can also blame the Kremlin for much of the trouble.The recent downgrading of Stalin, with all its agonizing zigzags in Red doctrine has confused and disgruntled even the most faithful readers. Beyond that, as international tensions ease and Italy's economy grows stronger. Communist rantings about the West are beginning to ring hollow to many Italians. Admits Giancarlo Pajetta. Italy's No. 2 Communist and the Reds' press boss: "Less international tension is bad for the party press. People lose interest...
...imprisonment and banishment (one sentence was for complaining in a letter to his father of the inefficiency of the police), Herzen was wondering whether a "human being with any sense of his own dignity could live in Russia." Yet Herzen had the realism to understand, 75 years before Stalin, that an inefficient despotism is preferable to an efficient one. With a visionary eye he looked across the steppes of history and foresaw that the witless crudity of the Czar's bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly love. Herzen's shrewd...