Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over U.S. recognition of Russia-"a regime which refuses to acknowledge the sanctity of international obligations." When Russia walked into Poland in 1939, Garner took an I-told-you-so attitude. He said to the President: "You haven't much choice, Cap'n. Either Hitler or Stalin would conquer the world. Hitler by force, and Stalin by chicanery, corruption, treachery and undermining...
Cried Communist Kim: "Koreans will not, and cannot leave our destiny to American imperialists and their hirelings, the U.N. Commission." Then he made the usual obeisance: "Long live the Soviet army and the Soviet people and their great leader, Comrade Stalin, benefactor and liberator of the Korean nation...
They were telling a story in Europe this week. In a Bulgarian classroom, a Communist teacher asked her hungry pupils to recite the Lord's Prayer. When they had finished, they were still hungry. Then the teacher led them in a new prayer which began "Our Father Stalin. . . ." Suddenly, through a hole in the ceiling, straight from the Marxist heaven, tumbled loaf after loaf of bread...
...Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged a darkness. The road to quick redemption had been charted by another great Soviet artist, Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein. Several times damned for deviation (notably for Ivan the Terrible), he always recanted, begged forgiveness, and put a little more pig iron in his next picture...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...