Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stalin asked sarcastically when it was suggested that the Pope join the Yalta talks: ?How many divisions does he command?? Wei had been one of the most celebrated opponents of the Communist regime in Beijing, but freedom and exile may propel him into the political wilderness...
...engineer by training--Jiang spent one year working at the Stalin Automobile Plant in Moscow--the Chinese president-to-be kept the door to political life open by joining the communist party of China before graduating from college...
Churchill, no doubt, and Roosevelt. But which Roosevelts: Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy? Who was more influential: Stalin or Lenin? Ford or Gates? John Lennon or Mick Jagger? Elvis? Louis Armstrong? Margaret Sanger? Rosa Parks? Marlon Brando? Einstein? Picasso? Mother Teresa? Jackie Robinson? Which ones were truly important, and what will their legacies be for the next millennium? As the debate progresses, we'll keep you updated and look forward to your input. Please let us know what you think...
Like Hitler, who insisted on a steady stream of musicals from the German studios, Stalin was a big fan of the genre; he saw Alexandrov's Volga, Volga (1938) 100 times. And busy as he was in 1933, supervising the forced starvation of 7 million Ukrainians, Stalin took time out to see The Jolly Fellows. It was his enthusiasm that overruled the censors' original...
...Russian musical died with Stalin, but the '50s and '60s saw a little bloom in Soviet-bloc musicals that were much more in step with Hollywood films. In three 1965 movies you'll see a dapper gent figure-skating around a woman in her bedroom (the Czech-East German The Wayward Wife), a DayGlo-bright production number in a spa (Woman on the Rails, Czechoslovakia), a Bulgarian Connie Francis in full taunt (The Antique Coin). But the syncopated clock was ticking; Commusicals fizzled out, as Hollywood song shows did, in the early...