Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning after a hearty pancake breakfast, Khrushchev himself turned up to take Salinger on a 45-minute boat ride on the Moscow River, and make a few jokes about an old comrade named Joseph Stalin, recently reinterred. The two were hardly alone: a secret security agent sat stolidly in the front seat alongside the pilot; a whole boatload of them trailed the Premier's craft at a discreet distance...
After dispensing advice on how failing collectives could pull themselves together and "become a Bulgarian Iowa," he lectured some local Communists for their opposition to destalinization. Then Khrushchev remembered that Western correspondents were in the audience; in the middle of a table-thumping denunciation of Stalin, he cut himself short. "But enough," he said. "The world is listening." The world was indeed listening, mostly for his reaction to the war in Southeast Asia. Khrushchev sounded rather mild-for Khrushchev. He condemned the dispatch of U.S. troops to Thailand as "unwise," and predicted that the move would lead to a Korea...
...Djilas broke with the regime in 1954, he has spent more time in jail than out of it. Courageously he had provoked reprisal by denouncing Communism in his book, The New Class. What landed him back in prison at the age of 51 was a new book, Conversations with Stalin, suppressed in Yugoslavia but published this week in the U.S. by Harcourt Brace. In addition to re-airing Tito's bitter 1948 break with Moscow-at a time when Soviet-Yugoslav relations are steadily growing cozier-Djilas provides some choice examples of Stalin's political realism...
...Stalin on the unique significance of World War II: "This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." - On the Red-supported Greek civil war: "The uprising has to fold up. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States-the most powerful state in the world-will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm...
Despite the curses against his name, Stalin still lives in the social and spiritual foundations of Soviet society...