Word: stalins
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During World War II he called pacifists "fascifists"; yet later he pleaded for clemency toward German war criminals. When half the Western world referred warmly to Joseph Stalin as "Uncle Joe," Orwell in 1946 produced his Swiftian satire Animal Farm, with its caricature of a U.S.S.R. where leaders are pigs and their motto is "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others...
Died. Nikolai Bulganin, 79, cold war Soviet Premier (1955-58), protégé of Stalin and Khrushchev; of undisclosed causes "after a serious protracted illness"; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...
...portly figure, bemedaled chest, well-groomed mustache and Vandyke beard became worldwide symbols of what was thought to be the Kremlin's conciliatory new look in the early years of the post-Stalin era. For more than a decade, he was a member of the Soviet Union's ruling elite. Yet by the time he died last week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess...
...protégé of Stalin's who nimbly escaped the dictator's endless purges, Bulganin was born in Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky) to a middle-class family. He joined the Bolshevik Party a few months before the 1917 revolution and advanced quickly in a succession of jobs: member of the secret police, no-nonsense manager of a key Soviet electrical-equipment factory and mayor of Moscow. Although he had no battlefield command experience, Bulganin became a general during World War II. Actually, he was a political commissar, charged with the task of keeping Red Army officers loyal...
...reputation of being a recluse. Although he then never dreamed that he might be able to publish in the Soviet Union, he was dedicated to recording and preserving for future generations the story of the 66 million victims of the vast "archipelago" of terror instituted by Lenin and Stalin...