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Nikita's successors, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, have taken a more sympathetic view of Stalin's historical role. The motive is not entirely clear; perhaps B. & K. are reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step...
...small straw, but straws make the bricks of international agreement, and U.S. officials and newsmen alike grasped at it eagerly. Perhaps too eagerly. Before the week was out, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev seemed to be ordering Gromyko back to the freezer when he issued a tough reply to Lyndon Johnson's recent appeal for better East-West relations. "If the U.S. wants to develop mutual relations," snapped Brezhnev, it must "remove the main impediment," which, in his view, is the bombing of North Viet Nam by U.S. aircraft...
Changing Intangibles. With Johnson off for Manila and Brezhnev busy conferring with satellite leaders, any real improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations will have to wait a while-most likely until after the November elections. There are those who doubt that any improvement is forthcoming. One official, dismissing the recent overtures as "just noise on the back stairs," predicts that Gromyko will soon be back...
What the three disparate raises reflect in common is the new economics, Soviet style, which is slowly reshaping the Russian way of business. Based on the ideas of realistic-minded economists like Kharkov's Evsei Liberman, the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin during 24 months in power has been nudging the Soviet economy toward a more rational system. One of its facets, as the shorter-skirted models displayed, was summed up by the fashion editor of the Ministry of Culture's newspaper: "The time has come when the customer can choose, order, indulge in fantasy...
...ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians, and just what happened behind the guarded gates of the vacation villa is, of course, a matter for speculation...