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Russia and China evidently also agreed to stop calling each other dirty names. B. & K. even began patching up relations with Albania, Red China's vociferous ally in Europe, whose propagandists have called Khrushchev's followers "veritable criminals and sinister schemers." Radio Moscow beamed a message of good will to Tirana, praising Albania's "sovereignty and position in the world" and reiterating faith in the Soviet Union's "sublime internationalist duty" of aiding all fraternal parties. But the Albanians, cocky as always, refused to end their "open ideological war" on Khrushchevian revisionism...
...which had become something of a personal obsession to Khrushchev. There is no likelihood that the split will be healed in the foreseeable future, but it will obviously not remain the same. With Chou's arrival in Moscow alongside delegations from every Communist nation in the world except Albania (which is being more Chinese than the Chinese), the post-Khrushchev era of Communism had begun...
...forever exhorting small, underdeveloped countries to rise up and seize foreign holdings on their territory -naturally referring only to properties of the "imperialist" West. Last week Moscow found itself on the receiving end of the confiscation kick, target of a brash grab by its defiant onetime Communist ally-tiny Albania...
...embassy headquarters, before the two countries broke diplomatic ties in 1961. The buildings had been under the care of three Soviet "technicians," and the seizure followed an unsuccessful campaign to pressure the caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian officialdom squealed like stuck imperialists, complained that the Albanians "trample underfoot the elementary standards of international law." What...
...entire ploy was doubtless intended in part to please Albania's pal, Red China. The embassy harassment began last December, on the very eve of a visit by Peking's touring Chou Enlai, who was welcomed in the gnat-size Balkan backwater (pop. 1,800,000) with the brave slogan: "We and the Chinese are 700 million strong...