Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tirana to pack up and come home. In turn, Albania's ambassador was ordered out of Moscow, while the two countries traded accusations of having bugged each other's embassies. It was the first time that two Red nations severed diplomatic relations (not even in 1948, when Stalin had his furious break with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, were diplomatic ties ruptured...
This freedom or Russian oligarchy is especially significant, Inkeles said, because it is based on the loyalty of the people rather than the police terrorism used by Stalin. However, he stressed that Khruschchev achieved his reforms without changing the essential nature of the Soviet state. In fact, the Russian peasant has actually lost autonomy while he has become more satisfied with his material condition...
Emptying the Gottwald mausoleum was simple compared with a second task Novotny put before the party: leveling the 6,000-ton marble monument to Stalin, which, on a perch overlooking the city, looms like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply...
...Still echoed by Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, who was Stalin's favorite scientist, then was deposed, but is now back in favor as president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences...
...high places and low, there were misgivings. In the beginning, it had been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring...