Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally splitting up to cover more ground, the Economist team ranged from Leningrad and the Georgian capital of Tiflis (where they found just two statues of Favorite Son Joe Stalin) to Armenia. Some of the events on their itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists...
...network's cameras had a look at almost everything in the 65-acre Kremlin compound, from the old Cathedral of the Archangel to the new glass-fagaded Soviet Palace of Congresses. There were glances at the Spartan rooms of Lenin, the spare embellishments of Stalin's new grave, and the fantastic Great Hall of St. George, with its huge chandeliers of what look like bunches of gold bananas...
...deliberately gave no reasons for the ousters, since a full explanation could set off a chain reaction of destalinization that might well cost dour, lackluster Novotny his job. Bacilek was top cop back in 1952 when Rudolf Slansky and ten other Red leaders were hanged in the bloodiest of Stalin's satellite show trials; Köhler also played a key role in preparing the purge. And Czechoslovaks with good memories would recall the day eleven years ago when Security Boss Bacilek publicly and effusively thanked all those who had produced the valuable evidence that helped send Slansky...
...fable of Reynard the Fox, making a neat allegory between the sly fox, who persuaded the king of the beasts that he could save the animal kingdom from the wicked wolf, and Adolf Hitler, who persuaded the aging Von Hindenburg that he could protect Germany from the threat of Stalin. The parallel perfidy of Reynard and Adolf, once they have seized power, falls almost too trickily into place, but the lesson is memorable...
...Communists are unlikely to begin a nuclear war, he quoted George Kennan's observation that "the theory of the inevitability of the eventual fall of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it." Fulbright compared the Communists to Hitler's Nazi Germany, observing that "neither Stalin nor his successors have exhibited anything like the suicidal mania of Hitler's Germany...