Politbureau

The "Politbureau," a baronial room with a grand balcony on the second floor, carries a stark reminder of the building's past.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The European Commission, he noted, was the exact equivalent of the old Soviet Politbureau, in terms of the secretive way power was exercised, the recruitment and personalities of its members and the scope and reach of its decisions.

Churchill and the EU 2010

He really doesn't want the bother of an electorate, what he's really trying to achieve is a far left Politbureau dictatorship.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

While this idea has been long since disproven, The FCC continues to heavily dictate spectral property and broadcasting in the same way the USSR distributed physical property and the Politbureau centrally "planned" the economy, keeping the big boys up on top.

Who Will Be America's First techPresident? Grading the Republicans editors, the 2007

It pains me to see that Chaney and Co. are just a smart version of the Politbureau and thus much more effective.

Firedoglake » Cheney and Rumsfeld vs. the CIA 2006

Refer to the Politbureau Ministry of Defense, that because the US and Thai prisoners have been identified by Thais, Politbureau orders they be removed from Attopeu Province.

Memorandum 1996

TIRANA - Albania's former communist president Ramiz Alia and six former members of the defunct communist party Politbureau were arrested on charges of large-scale appropriation and misuse of state funds, Albanian television reported.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

I have little doubt that the children of the members of the Politbureau in Moscow are given an exceptionally good start in life.

Democracy vs. Hypocrisy 1986

If we look behind the Iron Curtain, not with the committee model but the Politbureau model, this is just what the Soviet Union does now with the different countries inside the Iron Curtain from a totalitarian point of view.

How Fast Can Men Change? (New Patterns of International Relations) 1957

One by one the original members of the Politbureau disappeared, were eliminated, a dictatorship took control of the destinies of the Russian people ... a dictatorship stronger than the Czarist regime which it had supplanted, and it seems almost as though the old Russian policies, the old Russian Imperialist policies have been absorbed into the new Communist State.

The British Answer to Communism 1955