Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing but a joint aggression pact that brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to deceive each other. I am perfectly willing to send Herr Khrushchev a map showing the new frontier [dividing Poland] between Germany and the Soviet Union which bears the signatures of Stalin and Ribbentrop...
...medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed by N. S. Khrushchev," political commissar on the Stalingrad front. With this advance buildup, the thousands in the audience gave Old Soldier Khrushchev round after round...
What might such plans include? First and most clearly, the U.S. could revive the Berlin airlift, which in 1948-49 humiliated Stalin's Russia. Despite a lot of loose and unknowing talk about Communist electronic devices making air navigation into West Berlin impossible, the airlift remains perfectly feasible. Beyond that, there is the opportunity for the West to force its way through the Autobahn corridor to West Berlin, since right of access to the city is guaranteed by international law. Indeed, it would not make much difference whether papers were stamped by East German gate guards or-as they...
...cult of personality does not apply only to Stalin," sneered 52-year-old Hoxha (pronounced Ho-ja), as the delegates from 81 worldwide Communist parties sat gaping. "Khrushchev has distorted the theses of Leninism to suit his own purposes!" Hoxha sided flatly with Red China in the ideological battle to keep Stalinism alive, lashed out at Moscow for organizing the vendetta against Peking at last summer's Bucharest conference...
...from the girl who won Khrushchev's affection and powerful support. A onetime textile worker and a tough organizer for the Komsomol youth groups, Ekaterina joined the party secretariat of a Moscow district in 1942 and there met Khrushchev, after which promotions came fast. After Stalin's death, she became the Moscow party boss...