Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewing stand stood Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, who in July 1944 as chief of the Communist resistance movement in Poland helped establish the fledgling Soviet-backed regime and later, because of an ideological dispute with Stalin, was jailed for five years. As part of the festivities, Gomulka invited only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent...
...fiction. An obsessive craftsman, intensely jealous of his working and thinking time, he was often evasive and devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...
...energy to develop as it did, wrote Denis de Rougemont, "without the sexual discipline which the so-called puritanical tendencies have imposed upon us since Europe first existed. On the other hand, without eroticism and the freedom it supposes, would our culture be worth more than that which a Stalin, a Mao have attempted to impose by decree...
...this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first time that a U.S. President has visited a Communist country since F.D.R. conferred with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta...
...representatives of the Communist parties, whose ideal is the construction of the just society: Can it really be that such an obvious restoration of Stalinism in our country -the head of Communist society -does not alarm you? We call upon you to examine the total seriousness of the situation and do everything that your conscience and reason tell you -everything that is in your power -so that the ominous shadow of Stalin will not darken our future...