Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former secret police headquarters in Warsaw seemed respectable enough. The veterans had ostensibly come to pay homage to the victims of Stalinist terror in Poland in the early '50s. But a disturbing anti-Semitic strain began to sound through the nationalistic rhetoric. Orators singled out Jews in the Stalin-era Polish secret police and government as the torturers and murderers of "Polish patriots." Declared a former soldier in Poland's Home Army: "Those Jewish nationalists made a bloodbath. Let us block the way to power of the next generation of Zionists." Handbills with the slogan KEEP SOLIDARITY POLISH...
Cronkite is an old-fashioned newspaperman, a good one and proud of it. He was in the first group of war correspondents to fly a bombing mission over Germany. After the war, he covered Stalin's bleak and hostile Moscow for United Press. Out of his U.P. experience, and his concern that so many millions get their news only from TV, Cronkite tries to see to it that CBS runs more news items, even brief ones, than the other networks. He persists in the mannerisms and discipline of the older medium as if this guarantees his integrity...
...Dissidents examines those who do. They are most often those who come to politics only out of necessity and in defense of personal freedom. They are artists, religious practitioners, displaced nationals and often they are the young. In a country whose older population remains depoliticized, frozen by memories of Stalin's official terror, they are the exceptions. They are the ones who believe that ideas cannot be murdered with bullets, imprisonment or exile...
...accustomed to an absence of freedom," writes one dissident in his memoirs and Rubenstein sets himself to disclosing Stalin's arctic gulags, what Solzhenitsyn called the "sewage disposal system." Over seven million more returned from these purgatories during Kruschev's "thaw". Many of the those prisoners went on to become cultural leaders and intellectuals, and thus, art and literature quickly became a barometer of freedom and provoked an intense and continual debate...
Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...