Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin is making at least a partial effort to put its own history in perspective: Stalin, while not fully rehabilitated, is no longer treated as though he did not exist. In fact, his name was cheered last week when Brezhnev mentioned the late dictator in a Moscow speech. Marshal Zhukov, in oblivion for almost eight years since Khrushchev fired him as Defense Minister, also appeared, and was photographed in full military regalia last week. A Soviet law journal published an astonishing article recently, suggesting that the time had come for Soviet voters to have not one name but a choice...
...witness stand, Mihajlov was just as defiant as he had been in a bitter letter he sent newspaper editors defending himself. He insisted that his article had only mentioned historical facts about Stalin's purges and labor camps. When he offered to present proof, the court refused to hear his evidence on the grounds that "no fresh slanders against the Soviet Union will be permitted." In his final statement, Mihajlov said he would not recant what he had written and added that if the court condemned his writings, "then it means that it condemns history and would define what...
...already spent in pre-trial custody. It was a much milder penalty than that meted out to Milovan Djilas (The New Class), who is still serving a nine-year term for criticizing Yugoslav Communism. To cynics, that was just the point: a Yugoslav gets only months for criticizing Stalin but gets years for criticizing Tito...
...Twas not lost or strayed--just Stalin...
Dedijer said that Stalin, who held this theory, denounced Tito as an agent of the West after Tito's new government, established over Stalin's protests, was quickly recognized by the U.S. and Britain...