Word: titoism
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...leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested in 1951 for Titoism, but unlike Kadar he refused to crack despite three years' confinement. Reinstated as First Party Secretary in Poland's near revolution in 1956, he defied Khrushchev's threat to turn Soviet troops loose on Warsaw and granted his people considerable economic and social freedom. But as Poland...
...Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack of evidence...
Behind the new arrests, and proud to claim credit for them, is a fast-rising Hungarian quisling named Gyorgy Marosan. A flat-nosed, husky ex-baker who once served six years in jail himself for "Titoism," Marosan has now become "the visible one" of Russia's police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this...
Among the chief architects of the terror that reigned in Hungary between 1949 and 1953 were a father and son. When Stalin ordered bullet-headed Party Boss Matyas Rakosi to liquidate the top party and government leadership, from Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk down, on the grounds of Titoism, Rakosi knew where to turn for help. His man: Defense Minister Mihaly Farkas, a longtime Stalinist. In a key position in the AVH (security police) at that time was Farkas' son, Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas...
Died. Mosha Pijade, 67, top Tito lieutenant for 20 years, leading theorist of Titoism, President of Yugoslavia's Federal People's Assembly; of a heart attack; in Paris, on his way home from a diplomatic mission to London...