Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STALIN HAS THE FLU Official statements that the hospitalized Boris Yeltsin is merely susceptible to colds hark back to a bygone...
...five days." Ban Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases to one gun a month? "It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands." Sarah Brady, head of the lobby Handgun Control Inc., doubts that Heston will moderate the N.R.A. "A pretty face but the same...
...debates a few months ago over the relative influence of world leaders--Lenin over Stalin, Reagan over Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh over Che Guevara--involved a lot of learned discourses conducted as if we were sipping sherry in a faculty lounge. But the shift from Lenin to Lennon was wrenching. Indeed, the fights we had over artists and entertainers involved a lot of passionate diatribes conducted as if we were swigging tequila at all-night bull sessions in a sophomore dorm. In order to rationalize the process (somewhat), we divided the world of arts into 20 categories, ranging from writer...
...Though to Nazis his work was the epitome of "degenerate art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it, even in cold war America...
...Lenin dies; Trotsky and Stalin vie for power...