Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stealing the Reds' issues: he is suitably anti-American, in his own way pushes the cause of the underdeveloped and unaligned nations, and above all rules a country that is bursting with prosperity. Besides, Thorez is having his ideological troubles. Once intensely loyal to Stalin, Thorez long resented Khrushchev's attacks on his old mentor, then finally made his peace with Nikita, and today is among his strongest supporters in the split with Red China. But he runs his party in the unbending Stalinist spirit, disillusioning many intellectuals and particularly the young...
...spot there can contribute less, perhaps, than he can from any other major capital where U.S. correspondents are at work. In the years since World War II, TIME has tussled with this problem in many ways and has been out of Moscow more than it has been in. When Stalin's ironhanded censorship tightened and our own reports were reduced to a useless trickle, we closed our Moscow bureau (1948). Then, as censorship began to ease under Khrushchev, we applied to reopen our office (1956) but were repeatedly turned down. The Soviets changed their minds and readmitted...
...next of kin of Russia's great have often lived in fear and died in horror. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great slew their sons; Catherine the Great killed her husband. Stalin shot his wife in 1934, later tried perhaps to make amends by corrupting his son Vasily with unearned honors that did him little good; in 1962 truculent Vasily died in exile, probably from alcoholism...
...Stalin's Scheme. Though the Soviet Union has somewhat suddenly emerged as the world's second largest exporter (after South Africa), the big influx of Communist gold has failed to upset the West. Actually, the Soviet gold is welcomed by the U.S. Federal Reserve and European central banks, which have formed a consortium-called the London gold pool-to buy up gold as it comes on the market. Reason: the new supply of Soviet gold has eased the West's acute gold shortage and helped stabilize the free market price of gold at very near the official...
Gold mining in Siberia, a big business under the Czars, ground to a halt after the Revolution. It did not get started again until 1927, when Stalin, after reading Bret Harte's novels about the California gold rush, set up a gold trust in hopes that renewed mining in Siberia would spur a mass migration to that sparsely settled area. His scheme produced no substantial population shift, but the Russians so rebuilt and expanded their mining industry that by 1938 their annual gold output was worth $183 million...