Word: doublespeak
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Heavy Heart. In the characteristic doublespeak of totalitarianism, Khrushchev blamed the tension that he himself had cranked up. "The Soviet government has been compelled to take this step under the pressure of the policy of leading NATO powers," insisted the Russian statement. "This aggressive bloc leaves the Soviet Union no other choice...
Newsmen who asked Powell last week why he had never criticized any Red action were rewarded with Powell's own version of Orwellian doublespeak: "You just don't understand. In China, there's a new appreciation of the role of the press...
...Word. Shorn of its doublespeak, the word was cynically frank. Henceforth, said the Leader, the Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...