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Kremlin’s push to hide Stalin era cruelty toward minorities
Special correspondent William L. Ryan reports on Soviet propaganda for the 50th anniversary of the USSR emphasizing unity amid pressures of Russification. He notes deliberate errors in official notices and an effort to erase memories of Stalin’s deportations, while tracing the history of minority rights and the complex federation from 1922 to Brezhnev era.
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Kremlin
Stalin
William L. Ryan
U.S.S.R
Russia
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Poland
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Nikita Khrushchev