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  • This was the war, as Pat Buchanan says in his recent book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that “led to the slaughter of the Jews and tens of millions of Christians, the devastation of Europe, Stalinization of half the continent, the fall of China to Maoist madness, and half a century of Cold War.”

    The Greatest Blunder in British History « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • Shortly after, when Nikita Khrushchev had just begun his campaign of de-Stalinization, the Soviet leader singled out the hotel ' s ornamentation as unwanted architectural excesses.

    A Revival for Two Stalin-Era Hotels 2010

  • That was also the reaction shortly after the hotel first opened, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had just begun his campaign of de-Stalinization.

    Moscow Hotels Get Glitzy Rehabs, But Where Would Stalin Sleep? Daniel Michaels 2010

  • An army doctor at the time, who later became a historian, spoke of the "process of spontaneous de-Stalinization" that took place as a result of the war.

    In Stalin's Trap Frank, Joseph 2009

  • But Soviet soft power was undercut by the de-Stalinization in 1956 that exposed his crimes, by the repressions in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and in Poland in 1981, and by the growing transnational communication of liberal ideas.

    Joseph Nye: Who Caused the End of the Cold War? 2009

  • MARTIN: They had an opportunity to report what was going on, the whole Stalinization process of that part of Europe and they were the last to do that.

    CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2009 2009

  • It broke with the Soviet Union during Kruschev's de-Stalinization reforms because its dictator, Enver Hoxha, liked Stalinism.

    RJ Eskow: Global Pop: Finding Michael Jackson in Albania 2009

  • Or he could have followed the line put forward by the Soviets in the period of “de-Stalinization”: that the Russian people, divorced from their leadership, secured victory by means of their patriotic energies.

    Stalin’s Gift 2007

  • Or he could have followed the line put forward by the Soviets in the period of “de-Stalinization”: that the Russian people, divorced from their leadership, secured victory by means of their patriotic energies.

    Stalin’s Gift 2007

  • He saw this story, set in the prison camp at Ekibastuz, where Solzhenitsyn was held for a while, as useful in his de-Stalinization campaign.

    Solzhenitsyn, Optimist Edward E. Ericson Jr. 2008

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