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...Brutal Fist. Gradually, but ever more noticeably, the image of the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 40 years is enjoying a public refurbishing. Russia's public celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany accentuated the trend. Stalin's name has appeared frequently and admiringly in a torrent of war memoirs and newspaper articles. The first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone...
...believe that the present Soviet leaders, despite their problems with economic shortcomings and political dissent, plan to reinstate Stalin's brutal fist as well as his statues. Official Soviet histories continue to condemn his political "excesses" during the Great Purges of the 1930s. The more likely explanation for his current limited elevation is that the regime's major military figures want to build up their roles in World War II-and they can hardly avoid upgrading their wartime leader in the process...
...people, tens of thousands of people freaks, clean-cuts, old women-lolling in the shade soaking up the rhetorie. A swathe of Federal Employees on strike cuts through the crowd and you clench your fist and cheer. Everyone cheers, Again, you think "maybe...
...even as the General was seeking our help, a youth was causing trouble in the crowd. The kid was standing there with a raised fist. Heads turned, even though there was no noise. "I wish someone would kick him in the shins." a woman near me said to her friend. There were even signs claiming that napalm was violence...
...scout came by and presented me with a leaflet all about the clenched fist- "The Communist Salute." It was covered with pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald, Communist workers, Jesie Jackson, Fred Evans, etc., all with one thing in common: in the pictures they are raising clenched fists. The argument goes that they are all, therefore. Communists, therefore, evil: Q.E.D. There's a picture of a Panther demonstration in Oakland. Part of the caption reads: "Mao Tse Tung's 'Red Guard Manual' protrudes from girl's pocket...