Word: stalins
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...come from the labor side. There is a serious labor shortage in the Soviet Union. Most of the increment to the labor force is going to have to be from central Asians...I see Andropov using more traditional methods to deal with this new work force, methods associated with Stalin's era. There will be more of an effort to combat drinking and absenteeism. There will be an effort to fire workers who are not doing their jobs. The end result will still be ethnic friction because the top jobs will always be held by the Russians. The party leadership...
Sometimes a leader's pastimes imitate the way he governs. In his great biography of Stalin, Adam Ulam surmises that Stalin's sadism and recreation were allied. Stalin reveled in all-male, all-night banquets populated by middle-aged cronies drinking themselves witless and engaging in practical jokes. Among Stalin's favorites were placing a tomato on a chair about to be sat in and pushing friends into ponds. One can only imagine the hilarity and camaraderie at such occasions. One can also imagine the recognition on the faces of Stalin's former drinking buddies when...
...people" section is eternal. As long as there are people and intrigue, one E, Graydon Carter will continue to extoll the elite stars among us. And i will continue to flip directly to this section, no matter how many governments get overthrown. Joseph Stalin...
...misunderstandings. Because a new Soviet leader is, almost by definition, an unknown quantity, he is seen through hopeful Western eyes as a possible friend, or at least something less than an unblinking enemy. And so, now that Yuri Andropov has become only the fourth new Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin died at the height of the cold war, an irrepressible question is echoing around Washington: Might there be some chance of toning down the bitter hostility between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.? The answer, as far as it could be deduced at the end of a week of busy diplomatic...
...follows the lead of his predecessors, Andropov may also go after a post in the government. Brezhnev assumed the job of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, thus becoming titular head of state. Both Stalin and Khrushchev held the post of Premier or Chairman of the Council of Ministers...