Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party Boss Luis Carlos Prestes quickly climbed aboard, while a handful of other top leaders refused, were expelled, and openly joined forces with Peking. Early this year Prestes belatedly scheduled a national congress of the Brazilian Communist Party for an unprecedented open debate over Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin, but fear of exacerbating the already open wound forced its cancellation. Last week, after the 22nd Party Congress renewed the controversy, the pressure for public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species of left-wing extremists made trouble for the orthodox branch of the party. Not long...
...delegates-all followers of dialectical materialism, all sworn enemies of "superstition" and the supernatural-respectfully listened to the message from the spirit world. Even the Georgians, who had been so proud of their native son that when Stalin was first criticized in 1956 they had erupted in protest riots, now joined in his condemnation...
Simple Stone. That night, while Moscow slept, a motorcade of Jeeps, troop carriers and armored cars sped into floodlit Red Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
Promised Monuments. Having reduced the attractions available in the Red Square mausoleum-one of Moscow's top tourist centers-Khrushchev hastened to make up for the loss. He inaugurated a huge, brand-new, Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor...
...fantastic event-the posthumous revenge on a man who for years had been a demigod-could not be passed over that lightly. For most Russians, the Party Congress and the reburial brought the first solid evidence of Stalin's disgrace, and they talked about it with remarkable freedom. Mingling with the crowd in Red Square on a drizzly afternoon, TIME Correspondent Edmund Stevens listened to the restless, wondering voices...