Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, he seemed to lack his usual bounce. He had lost weight, the skin on his neck and face was slack, his eyes lacked sparkle. It took him a full day to recover anything like his old roadshow form. Then, in the Black Sea city of Varna (formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This isn't like writing notes." Khrushchev was visiting Moscow's earliest, most slavish European satellite because...
...matter of fact, the situation in Greece was easier. The Greek government, with U.S. help, did defeat the Red guerrillas-but only after Marshal Tito closed the Yugoslav borders to Communist supplies after his epic quarrel with Russia's Stalin. The other great victories over Red guerrillas took place in similar isolation...
...moral pretensions, he may have trimmed the truth as well. He lumps abolitionists with slaveholders, though, as Historian Oscar Handlin remarked, "There is surely a difference between being a fanatic for freedom and being a fanatic for slavery." He likens the two-year imprisonment of Jefferson Davis to Stalin's terrorism, but Stalin was rarely so gentle. When he claims that war is no more justified than one sea slug is in swal lowing another, his elegant prose turns a bit lumpish, like the slugs. He is at his best when he plunges into the minds of his writers...
...born a revolutionary tell you that you cannot permanently sacrifice the principles of YOUR revolution." So wrote Benito Mussolini to his brother rebel Adolf Hitler in a letter dated Jan. 3, 1940, reproaching Hitler for his cordial relations with yet another revolutionary-Stalin. But Mussolini, the founder of Fascism, proved in his own life the spiritual twinship of Fascism and Stalin's Bolshevism. He had marched under both banners without changing step...
...born closer to the Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey--the "Truman Doctrine" of 1946-7--not only failed to help...