Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who could not flee from the cities "life was an unrelieved nightmare," Langer stated. "You could hear the rumble of coffin carts all day long; parents deserted their children and people went mad with terror...
...Their program was radical, but democratic, pledging the restoration of the 1940 Constitution. The armed bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned virtually the entire population against him. In the fighting which followed, the urban middle classes suffered more casualties than any other group. Castro's first cabinet consisted entirely of upper and middle class professionals and intellectuals...
Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...Arendt says, "could be more obsolete than to attempt to liberate mankind from poverty by political means.. No revolution has ever solved the 'social problem'... Although the whole record of past revolutions demonstrates beyond doubt that every attempt to solve the social problem with political means leads to terror, and it is terror which sends revolutions to their doom, it can hardly be denied that to avoid this fatal mistake is almost impossible under conditions of mass poverty...
Director Anatole Litvak tangles the skein of fate with finesse; from Sophia he has coaxed some fine flashes of doe-eyed terror, and he has allowed Tony to prove what a convincing actor he can be when he is not embroiled with Kafka or Racine...