Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito has made much of the things that differentiate his Communism from other Communism. In Soviet Russia 1,378 candidates stood for 1,378 seats in last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Not for Tito such a travesty of democracy. Last week the Yugoslav dictator held his own version of parliamentary elections. For 301 seats, Yugoslav voters had a choice of 307 candidates...
...annoyance of his sponsors at the Manhattan Chess Club, he has turned up his nose at the club tournament. Now that he is in the big time, Bobby can't be bothered. Winning the U.S. title makes him eligible for the interzonal finals this summer in Yugoslavia. And a good showing against the tough competition there would make him a potential challenger for the world championship-a title now being decided in Moscow between the defending champion, Russia's Vassily...
Although he has no idea who will pay the bills to get him even as far as Yugoslavia, Bobby is so sure that he will get to Russia that he has already begun studying Russian...
...subhuman being. Such is the case of Wolfgang Leonlard, an ex-Stalinist official of East Germany, whose dismal career has apparently foundered on the dismal hope that "national Communism" would be better than the all-too-togetherness of a universal Moscow state. Soviet Expert Edward Crankshaw met Leonhard in Yugoslavia, where, says Crankshaw in his foreword, "he was rather like one of those legendary young men who . . . emerge from the jungle emitting strange sounds, having spent their childhood or adolescence in the exclusive company of wolves-or bears...
...From these case-history-hardened boys and girls, the Russians drew the personnel that took over in East Germany. Walter Ulbricht, a grim, humorless and inhuman man. even by Communist standards, was their leader, and Leonhard became one of his lieutenants. But in 1949 he fled to Yugoslavia, sided with Tito against Moscow, but remained a Marxist. The book is fascinating as a sort of Communist Candide-but it is far less amusing. It was written, after all, not by Voltaire but by poor, simple Candide himself...