This type of communist semantics and phraseology is sometimes called "Orwellian language" in English from British author George Orwell's novel "1984". However, Orwell saw this type of language not only emerging in communist countries, but unfortuanetly, in Western capitalist countries too. Some of the first signs of it appeared in the early 1970's when the Nixon administration tried to redefine things. I'll never forget the one Nixon White House spokesman who said that the economic slump of that time was "not a depression just a mild recession."

Russian communist phraseology existed not only in the Soviet Union but also spilled over into its satellite states too. I remember seeing the expression "Inner-party democracy" in a North Korean text, "People's economy planning" and "The spectrum of workers' collectives in a peoples' economy" in an East German publication, as well as "Lenin is a hero to all of the world's progressive peoples" in a Romanian paper.