Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times in Stalin's final paranoiac years, Salisbury had worked under the world's stiffest censorship; as a result, his blue-penciled stories in those days sometimes read more like items from Pravda than straight news. Not until Salisbury returned to New York in 1954 could he write the facts; Moscow promptly blasted him as ''ignorant" and a "liar," and refused him another visa for several years. Salisbury's latest product doubtless would win him some plaudits in the Kremlin-and some angry snarls as well...
...Soviet idea of what a U.S. President should be. He won Russian gratitude for establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union immediately after he took office in 1933 (Democrat Wilson had "intervened" against the new Bolshevik regime; Republicans Harding, Coolidge and Hoover had refused to recognize it). Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt hit bottom in Soviet esteem when he condemned...
After Germany attacked Russia in June of 1941, and Roosevelt offered the beleaguered Russians "every possible material assistance," his standing with the Soviets quickly rose. As the wartime ally of Stalin in the fight against fascism, Roosevelt was held up to the Russian people as one of a handful of Westerners who was a true friend of the Soviet Union. At the Teheran and Yalta conferences, Roosevelt turned on the charm to win Stalin's trust and cooperation ("I think I can handle Stalin personally better than my State Department"). As a result of agreements made at those meetings...
...Schwarz had an interest deeper than doctoring. In 1940 he fell into an argument with an Australian Communist. After this debate, he determined to find out all he could about Communism. He steeped himself in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, to the point that friends recall his wife, Lillian May, saying: "I'm never alone with Fred. He always has Karl Marx along...
...power of Communism. Sometimes he overrates the Reds: to read or hear Schwarz, the Communists have never suffered a setback in their march toward world domination; the free world has never scored the slightest cold war success. Communism is a monolith without internal dissension. Nikita Khrushchev, while describing Stalin as a sadistic, megalomaniacal murderer, in his famous January 6, 1961 speech, was by Communist standards of virtue commending his old boss, not condemning him. Today, there is no such thing as an ideological split between Moscow and Peking; the notion that there is, says Schwarz, is "just a product...