Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with an organized lie that, in the minds of millions, made white mean black, war mean peace, and good mean evil. There was not a king or a rich man, a shoemaker or a peasant wife who was not touched by Stalin's power, and who on his birthday did not bear him reverence-or hatred and fear...
Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great Stalin-Glory, Our Strength-Stalin, and You Are Our Hero. The Bulgarian city of Varna on the Black Sea reported that it had changed its name to Stalin. The Czechs sent word that they had renamed their highest mountain, Gerlachovka (8,737 ft.), Mt. Stalin...
...Kremlin, Mao presumably congratulated Stalin on his birthday. Nationalist Chinese sources reported that he had brought along 15 carloads of gifts, including rare art and historical treasures from Peking's palaces and museums. But the two leaders undoubtedly had more important business to transact; it seemed likely that they would forge treaties of friendship, alliance and trade, and prepare fresh blows at the soft underbelly of the non-Communist world in East Asia...
This week the Academy of Sciences of the Rumanian People's Republic, in collaboration with the Rumanian Soviet Scientific Institute, will hold a symposium on the scientific achievements of Joseph Stalin, occasioned by the Generalissimo's forthcoming 70th birthday. Papers are to be read on the following subjects...
...these glowing terms, the Central Committee of Bulgaria's Communist Party saluted its leader on his soth birthday, two years ago. Last week Comrade Rostov, for a decade Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, was on trial for his life...