Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union has led to the arrest and trial of writers and religious dissenters, the harsh treatment of some minorities and cruel treatment of political prisoners...