Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election were part of the elaborate ritual by which Russia's rulers practice dictatorship while preaching democracy. On paper, the Soviet Union has a model constitution, guaranteeing all citizens freedom of speech and assembly, a free press, and equality under the law. In fact, as intended by Joseph Stalin, who introduced the constitution at the height of his reign of terror in 1936, it is a meaningless document because the Kremlin can and does ignore it at will...
Last week, in his State of the Soviet Union address at the Great Kremlin Palace, Khrushchev proclaimed that Russia has progressed from the "proletarian dictatorship" of Stalin's era to "a socialist state of the whole people," called for a new constitution that will "create even firmer guarantees of the democratic rights and freedoms of the working people." In addition, said Khrushchev, who heads the committee in charge of drafting the new document, it will "clearly formulate" the principle of peaceful coexistence, which is still regarded as heresy by diehard Stalinists in Moscow and Peking...
Iran does have a secret police and the dismissal of its chief, General Bakhtiyar, does not mean the organization no longer exists. Probably some people in jail should not be there. Elections in Iran are a farce. But this does not mean that the Shah is another Hitler or Stalin with over-leaded concentration camps and a steady diet of executions. Extremist positions, either way, based more on emotions than on realities are distasteful...
...Stalin's elder son. Yakov Dzhugashvili, reportedly died in a German concentration camp during World War II. He was the only child of Stalin's first wife. Vasily and a sister, Svetlana, believed now living in Moscow, were the children of the dictator's second wife, Nadezhda Allilueva, whom Stalin shot to death inside their Kremlin apartment in 1932 during a fit of rage...
...that Izvestia had allotted to Popovic. But there was more to Gromyko's appearance in Belgrade than such formalities indicated. On the government level, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have become steadily warmer, even though party propagandists still practice the name-calling inspired by Tito's 1948 split with Stalin. Khrushchev, faced with the new threat of a more serious break with Red China, has gradually made peace with Tito, who has used his considerable influence among European Communists to urge support for Khrushchev's destalinization policies. Plainly, Gromyko's visit marked the Kremlin's public acknowledgment...