Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonid Brezhnev. There were other decorations. Outer Mongolia awarded Khrushchev its Order of Suhe-Bator, Czechoslovakia weighed in with the Order of the White Lion, first class, with gold chain, and top orders came from East Germany and Rumania. The congratulations almost recalled the "personality cult" that once surrounded Stalin; they salute Nikita as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy in the service of the cause of Communism...
...Communist, Khrushchev has given every evidence of sanity and of really believing in peaceful coexistence. And yet it is well to remember that Stalin, too, practiced a form of peaceful coexistence when he entered the popular fronts with the hated Socialists abroad during the '30s and fought alongside the hated capitalists in World War II. The West paid a price for this at Teheran and Yalta. It is not impossible that Khrushchev will present his own bill some...
Presidium member Polyansky, on the other hand, is only 47 years old. His first memories are not of the revolution, but a peasant family's view of the early Stalin years. He has not experienced the elation of participating in the revolution; he has only seen the hardship and slaughter that followed it. The policies he would pursue if he gained power would certainly, within the limits of rational interest, be different...
...detente would not prevent international issues, as well as the inevitable internal questions such as consumer goods versus heavy industry, from becoming ideological weapons with which the opponents could assault each other. Traditionally, the victor has been the advocate of a conservative hard line, the position from which Stalin defeated Trotsky and Khrushchev upset Malenkov. But would a hard-line candidate attempt to oust an opponent by breaking the nuclear test-ban treaty or, ultimately, starting a nuclear war to prove that Communist civilization could be built on the rubble of the old order? It is more likely that, following...
Inevitably there will be a division of sentiment at the State Department. Some officials are reportedly grimly determined to "take advantage" of an opportunity they feel was missed at Stalin's death. Others will argue that such tactics would infuriate the Soviet leadership and end the current detente...