Word: stalinist
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...feel that Japan is in general, cool, almost like ice.' TO CHU JI, North Korean defector who fled the Stalinist nation for Japan four years ago, after deciding that Japanese "don't care about each other" and returning on June 21 to North Korea...
...runs the economy so well so we have this money to spend.'" Others have proved less forgiving. Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top civil servant, remarked of his management style at the Treasury: "You cannot help but admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all." Within eight months of Blair's first victory, a source from within 10 Downing Street famously skewered Brown by diagnosing him as "psychologically flawed...
...family in their communal hut used a goat to keep warm. "The six of us slept together around her on the floor," he wrote. Another of his early memories was the arrest of his father and uncle on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" during a wave of Stalinist terror in 1934. The experience - the men spent three years in the Gulag - seemed not to dampen a rebellious streak that showed early in his life. Yeltsin recounted several occasions on which he was disciplined in school for fighting or for organizing pranks, once persuading all the students in his classroom...
VACLAV HAVEL, former President of the Czech Republic, called him a "Maoist, a Trotskyist ... a phenomenon unto himself." Starting in the 1950s, rebel philosopher-poet Egon Bondy drew followers with his surreal fiction--published and distributed covertly--which offered veiled, witty critiques of his country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled...
...long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells now in Lowell. The 18 bells in the tower originally hung in the Danilov Monastery, but were purchased by philanthropist Charles R. Crane and given to Harvard in 1930 to save them from the possibility of destruction under Stalinist rule. The bells are scheduled to return home to the Danilov Monastery during the summer of 2008, in exchange for replicas of the bells, which will be completed and inspected in the coming weeks. Konovalov and Ogryzkov have visited Cambridge and the bells numerous times, and are now trying to make sure...