Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder if Ivan ever heard of Jesus Christ. I've heard of Karl Marx and Ivan can have him! I wonder if Ivan has heard of Lincoln or Dag Hammarskjold? Poor Ivan, Stalin has just hit the dust. What a way to learn history...
...Mountain. With the removal of Stalin's name and body from the Lenin Mausoleum, Russians everywhere hastened to help along Old Joe's "second death." The coal mining center of Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World...
Changing place names was easy, but Russians were staggered by the problem of what to do with the hundreds of thousands of silvery Stalin statues, busts, romantic paintings, prints and touched-up photographs that were coming down from parks, museums, railway stations, airports, government buildings, hotels, factories and apartments. There had been nothing like it since the austere iconoclasts destroyed all the icons and shattered all the statues of the lusty 8th century Byzantine Empire.* Out in the satellites of Eastern Europe, stupefied Reds could not seem to make up their minds what to do about their years of Stalinolatry...
Party Hack. Things were even stickier in Red China, where the leadership continues to reminisce fondly about Stalin and to applaud Albania's nose-thumbing of Khrushchev. By ironic coincidence, last week was also the 20th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party, which provided occasion for counterfire. Khrushchev may have accused the Albanian Reds of such terrorism that "even pregnant women are shot," but Peking sent congratulations to Tirana, praised the "correct leadership" of Albanian Boss Enver Hoxha, and crooned that the Chinese people admire the Albanian people "from the bottom of their hearts...
...parlayed World War II intelligence experience into a profitable civilian career, ran what he asserted was the world's largest private spy network (7,000 agents by his count), claimed complicity in a clutch of international intrigues straight out of E. Phillips Oppenheim, including a plot to smuggle Stalin's son out of Russia; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...