Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs which respond to crises at they occur. For among the alternatives to movements emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his form of global community--movements such as the NIEO--history shows us the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. A Hitler or Stalin brandishing atomic bombs is almost too much for the imagination...
...chided the invasion of Ethopia and China by aggressive powers? Was this the same passionate government, the one that threw up trade barriers, saying to the world, "Go to hell. We'll recover on our own!"? They participated in the noble battle against the terrible Nazi mass murderer--with Stalin as an ally who exterminated millions of Soviet citizens before the war. The same government fought over the spread of darkness, only to let the Iron Curtain fall over Europe. But at least Western Europe was free; we never really cared about Eastern Europe--it always seemed just like Russia...
...funeral, Brezhnev appeared grief-stricken as he shuffled along, supported by aides, behind Suslov's coffin. Before the body was lowered into a grave next to Joseph Stalin's beside the Kremlin Wall, Brezhnev read a eulogy: "While saying goodbye to our comrade, I would like to tell him, 'Sleep peacefully, our dear friend; you have led a great and glorious life...
...than 60 years in the service of the Communist Party, Suslov remained an aloof, backstage figure. Born into a poor peasant family in 1902, he became a fervent Bolshevik at 16. He rose with extraordinary rapidity in the Communist Party hierarchy, soon becoming a protégé of Stalin's. The dictator gave Suslov major roles in a series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under Khrushchev and Brezhnev...
...been careful to discourage "Bona-partism," that is, the military's usurpation of political power. Nonetheless, the civilian leadership headed by President Leonid Brezhnev (who is, like Stalin, a Marshal) has been extraordinarily accommodating to the armed forces' voracious demands on national resources...