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...many legacies, his role in the purges of the 1930s and 40s may remain unchallenged as the greatest. Under his direction, forced collectivization of land saw millions of people murdered throughout the Russian countryside, all for the creation of a centralized, military, industrial state and the dream of Communism in Russia. Whether he remains forgiven is the question to ask. The Times article described an aura of resentment that hung over Suslov's funeral ceremony in Moscow. Even with the grand treatment expended towards commemoration of his death, how, after all, could anyone forget the atrocities he committed, almost with...
...been at odds with the Kremlin ever since they criticized the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The quarrel escalated into open conflict last Dec. 30, when the P.C.I., headed by Enrico Berlinguer, published a resolution denouncing the imposition of martial law in Poland and declaring Soviet-style Communism to be an "exhausted" force. Last week, after the P.C.I.'s Central Committee overwhelmingly approved that resolution, the Soviet party daily Pravda unleashed an attack of almost unprecedented ferocity...
...leaders of the P.C.I. speak of aspirations to struggle for peace, but at the same time they slander the principal, fundamental force in this struggle: the U.S.S.R. and its socialist allies." The PC.I.'s "position against world socialism," said the article, was "an aid to imperialism, to anti-Communism and to all forces hostile to social progress...
...series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. As the Politburo member in charge of ideology, international Communism and China, Suslov was instrumental in crushing the 1956 Hungarian revolution, and he presided over the final ideological rupture between Moscow and Peking...
...compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation but don't convince the segregationist that he is wrong, these his have will find a dozen other outlets; indeed, it the put the same man in charge of Poland or EI Salvador, and capitalism or communism won't matter--the countries will end as looking the same...