Word: zhdanov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Extraordinary & Infamous." The Kremlin feels that it must change the minds of Italian (and other) workers even if that means taking away the spaghetti. Moscow's Pravda made that point clear when it devoted two pages to an explanation of the Little Comintern by Andrei Zhdanov...
Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...
...other words, it would take more than spaghetti to thwart Zhdanov...
...have had Zhdanov, Togliatti, Gromyko and Vishinsky in a matter of a few months. This demonstrates the naive, non-political sense that makes Americans the joke of Europe's poLticos...
Like a Vishinsky speech, I Want to Be Like Stalin attempts to build one myth about Russia and another about the world outside. To accomplish this, history is arbitrarily distorted (in 1934, a three-man committee of Stalin, Kirov, and Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...