Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAILURES AGAINST THE WEST. His adventure in Cuba two years ago ended in humiliation when the U.S. forced him to retreat. Where Stalin, armed with nothing tougher than tanks, had grabbed great swatches of territory and threatened other countries (Spain, Korea and Greece), Khrushchev, despite his ICBMs and thermonuclear terror, could gain nothing more than a small Caribbean island-and not even defend it. From the point of view of his critics, it was turning into a no-win policy, aggravated by ideological softness on capitalism. Military men also charged that he was relying on the nuclear deterrent too much...
...Soviet economist, who in 1946 stunned the Communist world-and discredited himself-by writing that 1) the U.S. would not suffer a severe postwar depression, 2) capitalist nations would not necessarily undergo revolution, and 3) Communism and capitalism could coexist, views that eventually returned Varga to grace after Stalin's death, when the Kremlin revamped its party line; in Moscow...
...several large rooms. A small side room devoted to the Normandy invasion points out that "with every gallon of gasoline, with every bomb that fell, monopoly-capitalists were earning money." In the same room is a copy of a New York paper from the day on which Hitler attacked Stalin, with5The Brandenburg Gate is here seen through the barbed wire of the border, for it stands entirely in East Berlin. No one from either side can come close to it, for East Berliners are also kept about 200 yards away...
...satellite to reroute its minimal trade with Japan and other overseas countries through Vladivostok-a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides of the long border could only have provoked sighs of regret from oldtime Communists. Under Joseph Stalin, the ultimate commandment was harshly enforced: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor...
...future of Communism in Italy. He took Nikita Khrushchev sternly to task for his heavy-handed tactics in the ideological dispute with Red China, decried the slowness with which the Soviet Union has moved in eradicating the "regime of restrictions and suppression of democratic and personal freedom introduced by Stalin." He vigorously defended the independence of national Communist parties while rejecting any return to the monolithic control desired by Khrushchev...