Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party after his release, traveling about Europe with forged credentials. In the mid-'30s he began using the alias "Tito," a common name in his home district. (It was one of many pseudonyms: in correspondence with Moscow, he was always "Valter," and it was by that name that Stalin knew...
...summoned to Moscow in 1935 for training as an agent of the Comintern, the international Communist umbrella organization founded in 1919; but he ignored a call to return there in 1937, when Stalin's bloodthirsty purges were at their height. This may have saved his life. He later said: "When I went to Moscow, I never knew whether I would come back alive." In 1939 the Comintern confirmed him as general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...that women should have been compensated for past discrimination against their maternal forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues ... we need only refer to Santayana's apologias for Mussolini and Stalin, Heidegger's support of Hitler, Sartre's refusal to condemn the concentration-camp economy of the Soviet Union...
...catch the autobiographer in a variety of duplicities and concealments. Hook concludes that "the manner in which [she] refers to ... anti-Communist liberals shows that what she cannot forgive them for is not so much their alleged failure to criticize [Joseph] McCarthy but ... their criticism of the crimes of Stalin and his successors during the forty years in which she apologized for them." When Novelist Mary McCarthy made equally hostile remarks about Hellman on the Dick Cavett Show, a lawsuit followed. Hellman is unlikely to take Hook to court; his evidence is clear, weighty and damning. But even here...
...Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Union has not changed since Stalin's time. "It has one course and one course only. It is dedicated to the belief that it is going to take over the world." Moreover, the Soviets have been winning everywhere for 25 years because of a U.S. "foreign policy bordering on appeasement." Washington has seriously weakened U.S. defenses, and what is needed is a rapid buildup in all types of arms. "Tune out those cynics, pacifists and appeasers who tell us the Army and Navy of this country are nothing but extensions of some malevolent military-industrial complex...