Word: unperson
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...cruiser Aurora, which is firing blanks at the Winter Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene. Also portrayed for the first time in film since his death twelve years ago was Joseph Stalin...
...Soviet view of history has always been that it exists only in the eye of the beholder-or at any rate, the holder of power. To fall from favor was to fall from sight-to become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed. But the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin seems determined to give Russians a more honest glimpse of some tarnished heroes of the past...
...describing his rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Party Secretary. Even the fellow's inspirational quote on the back gave way to an anonymous poem praising party modesty. Thus, by having his birthday wiped from the state calendar, did Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev become an "unperson...
...days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with respect. Stalin's birthday (Dec. 21) is observed in the same Soviet calendar that has made Nikita an unperson...