Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain his dislike of Molotov, it was time for Old Stone Bottom to go. It was 50 years since he joined the Bolshevik party (as a boy of 16), and though he might now see the need for new methods, his name was too closely associated with that of Stalin to be the one to make them. His parents had been respectable people from the Volga region named Scriabin, related to the composer. Young Vyacheslav Mikhailovich ingratiated himself with the Bolsheviks by persuading a wealthy young bourgeois friend to finance a clandestine newspaper called Pravda. To this, and the fact...
...made the Central Committee at 31, and the Politburo five years later, but the world knew little of him until 1939, when he succeeded Maxim Litvinov as Foreign Minister. Joking with General Charles de Gaulle years later, Stalin said: "You got the better of Molotov. I think we'll have to shoot him." De Gaulle records that Molotov turned green. By containing his moments of terror and allowing himself to be Stalin's whipping boy, Molotov not only lived, but achieved fame. Stalin named factories, cities, ports after him. And in Western dictionaries he will doubt less...
...some very juicy meat for the carnivorous Commies in your report on Louisiana's Bossier Parish school board action. We are still laughing heartily at the Communist Party's difficulties in their attempt to debunk Stalin; however, it becomes a tragedy when American public schools resort to similar "educational" tactics...
...Harriman Line. With Kennan's basic argument Harriman could hardly disagree more. The disarming Soviet policy of coexistence was set before Stalin's death, Harriman says, and the Soviets still seek world conquest, "but throwing off Stalin makes the new line more plausible." Writing in the Atlantic, he argues that U.S. foreign policy must derive from "moral strength," and especially that the U.S. must "succeed once again in identifying ourselves with anti-colonialism rather than with colonialism...
Russia is an Asiatic country, and I myself am an Asiatic, Joseph Stalin once told a Japanese diplomat. "Our country is both European and Asiatic. The largest part of our territory lies on the Asian continent." said roly-poly First Party Secretary Khrushchev five months ago in India. Last week Stalin's heirs were showing increasing determination to make Asians out of millions of other Russians...