Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
...editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume followed volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling in the Arctic...
...that were true, Stalin would be wrong," said History, "be cause America and Britain, though they may undergo great changes, will not become Communist states. More is at stake than economic and political systems. Two faiths are at issue. It is just that problem which these gentlemen below are trying to work out in practical terms. But if they fail, I foresee more wars, more revolutions, greater proscriptions, bloodshed and human misery...
...campaign had also begun, and the U.S. people were in the middle of it. They had not been put there by George Marshall alone. Their decision had been shaped, in part, by the pressure of events -starvation and despair in Europe, the cynical and ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin, the stubborn, mendacious methods of Molotov, the calculated rantings of Andrei Vishinsky...
...Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that takes up where Stalin's stops. He slipped out of Salonika in 1946 to join the guerrillas and shortly became their commander in chief...