Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joined Hands. Chou's visit to Tirana was not all politics. His New Year's Eve began at the workers' club of the Stalin textile plant, where Chou and his tubby Foreign Minister Chen Yi joined hands with Hoxha and other Albanian greeters to whirl gaily through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms...
...might have ruled the Communist world, but Joseph Stalin shouldered him aside. Ever since, Leon Trotsky has been the favorite martyr of those Marxists who feel that Communism was never given a fair trial because Stalin corrupted...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
...well (the 15 top U.S. scientists in 1960), and anonymous symbols (the Hungarian Freedom Fighter and Korea's G.I. Joe). There have been Presidents (every President since F.D.R., who himself set a record as Man of the Year three times), allies (Churchill, Adenauer, De Gaulle), enemies (Hitler), villains (Stalin). There have been women too (Wallis Simpson, Queen Elizabeth). But there has never, until this year, been a Negro...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...