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More fascinating even than the Czech Charleston is the country's ideological twist between Moscow and the Albania-China faction. Officially, Czechoslovakia backs Moscow, but Premier Antonin Novotny is an old Stalinist. Not only have the Czechs managed to keep on trading with Albania, but they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried...
...Czechoslovakia, Communist Boss Antonin Novotny followed Khrushchev's destalinization line by reburying a predecessor, ex-President Klement Gottwald, who died in 1953, nine days after Stalin, of natural causes (pneumonia and pleurisy, contracted at Stalin's funeral). From his modernistic mausoleum in suburban Prague's Vitkov Hill, where he lay in public view, Gottwald was moved to a national memorial park and placed underground. Novotny himself used to be a notorious Stalinist, but in an ironic and macabre turnabout managed to blame most of his party's past Stalinist errors on former Party Boss Rudolf Slansky...
...Gunther extracts such conversational bits of color as the Albanians' name for their country (Shqiperia), Khrushchev's scholastic record (he was illiterate until his mid 20s), what Mr. K. and Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough in a restaurant washroom was for "gentlemen who had dined too well to vomit into...
...carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Albania's Mehmet Shehu, Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Symbolically, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, his frosty-white hair matted in an undisciplined shag, took his seat in a distant corner, tied to Khrushchev by ideology but less than the others by strings...