Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH SHELEPIN, 46, hard-eyed ex-boss of the secret police, somewhat "sanitized" since Stalin's days, who remains in many ways Russia's top cop. His was the most remarkable of the new promotions, since he leapfrogged over the heads of oldtimers waiting around for membership to become the youngest member of the party Presidium. A persuasive pragmatist, Shelepin talked 350,000 Russian youths into volunteering for work in the virgin lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin...
...history takes stage center as Bitos actually becomes Robespierre. There are tableaux of the boy being caned by a Jesuit schoolmaster for his stiff-necked pride, of Robespierre as a humorless young parliamentary Stalin outraging the more moderate Mirabeau ("You've taught me a very sad thing, which is that the Revolution could be a bore"), of Robespierre dictating new decrees of death in a last mad spasm of guillotine-hungry power...
...night of Oct. 5, he was arrested. Chief evidence produced at his trial was a speech critical of the government that he had written in June; he never delivered it, but had allegedly sent a copy to his daughter in Washington. Under a decree dating back to the Stalin era, Wankowicz was sentenced to three years in prison. The judge cut the sentence in half because of a recent amnesty and allowed him to go home pending appeal...
...coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Socialists. While Italy is beset by inflation and strikes, the coalition parties are campaigning largely on the argument that Communists are Communists, one using Khrushchev's ouster to underline the point; the Christian Democrats even put up portraits of Khrushchev, Malenkov, Stalin and Mao right in Rome's Via Veneto to recall the jungle warfare in the Red world. The Communists counter by sticking to Italian economic issues and by pointing to Mayor Dozza and the rinnovatori (modernizers) elsewhere to show that Communism has indeed changed...
...candor that has marked his political career also jars with the usual image of a politician. When he first ran for the Senate in 1954, he disregarded the advice of the professionals and attacked Senator Joseph McCarthy. Branded by some members of his own party "Stalin's candidate," he won by the narrowest margin in New Jersey's history. When Sherman Adams was under investigation, Case bluntly advised his old friend to resign; they have never communicated since...