Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shakeup, a famous Old Bolshevik faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
Last week the assassin went free, his story still untold. During his trial he insisted that his name was Jacques Mornard, and claimed to be a Belgian Communist who had supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled...
...Fact of Life. During the Stalin era, that hope seemed completely unrealistic. But during the Khrushchev years, the West has slowly, warily concluded that forces of change are at work in the Red world, evidenced by greater emphasis on consumer-goods production, the partial dismantling of the police-state terror apparatus, the parting of the Iron Curtain to permit travel and cultural exchange. From his recent talks with Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle brought away a firm impression that Khrushchev now feels compelled to take into account a new fact of life: Soviet public opinion...
Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...
After Khrushchev denounced Stalin, and one day's official version became the next day's lies, the sycophants of Sofia confessed that the charges against Kostov had been "invented and contrary to the truth"-and wasn't it too bad he was already dead? Bulgaria also proclaimed itself as keen as Khrushchev in its desire to coexist peaceably with the U.S. The U.S. replied coldly that, before patching up relations, Bulgaria would also have to take back its lies about Minister Heath (now U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia...