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...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...
Party Hack. Things were even stickier in Red China, where the leadership continues to reminisce fondly about Stalin and to applaud Albania's nose-thumbing of Khrushchev. By ironic coincidence, last week was also the 20th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party, which provided occasion for counterfire. Khrushchev may have accused the Albanian Reds of such terrorism that "even pregnant women are shot," but Peking sent congratulations to Tirana, praised the "correct leadership" of Albanian Boss Enver Hoxha, and crooned that the Chinese people admire the Albanian people "from the bottom of their hearts...
...week's end, over Radio Tirana, brash Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah), carried the attack directly to Khrushchev, warning that Albania "was not alone" in resisting Khrushchev's "calumnies, blackmail and blockade." The main issue, said Hoxha, was settling the problem of West Berlin and signing a peace treaty with East Germany. He bluntly accused Khrushchev of dragging his feet and of delaying "from year to year...
...Soviet theory of "peaceful coexistence" with the West, said Hoxha, was simply another way of "giving up the struggle" against imperialism. He insisted that Albania was not "throwing mud" on the Soviet Union,* but that it was Khrushchev who was libeling Albania, "just like the reactionary bourgeois press," by describing it as a country where "terror and murder held sway." To Khrushchev's charge that there was no "democracy" within the Albanian Communist Party, Hoxha insolently replied: "Better watch your own affairs...
...country that has only one-fifth the population of Cuba and can scarcely field an army of two divisions, Albania was talking pretty defiantly. Hoxha seemed to be counting on his belief that Albanians had "friends and comrades in the Communist countries who have not left them and will not leave them in the lurch...