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...addition to this crushing performance, Khrushchev and Malenkov met in Budapest with Communist leaders from Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia for a "comradely exchange of opinion." Significantly missing from this poor man's Cominform was not only Tito, that sometimes welcome and sometimes unwelcome Communist, but also Poland's Gomulka...
...Albania Bulgaria Byelorussia Czechoslovakia
...fingers of Guitarist Andres Segovia and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, linger in closeup on the intense face of Marian Anderson, share the lilt of Verdi's La Traviata with Victoria de los Angeles, stand amid the powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently than in its first edition ten months ago, that TV can add to music a certain intimate magic, and even some musical values not available in concert halls. There are probably millions of viewers who find the wait between such shows...
Unlike Czechoslovakia's Slansky, Hungary's Rajk and Bulgaria's Kostov, who went to the gallows after dutifully confessing their party errors, there was no great public show trial of the Polish "Titoist" Gomulka. One of the reasons for this was that the stubborn Gomulka could not be broken, stubbornly refused to make an abject confession. Fearing that some of his ad-lib remarks in court might involve others in their wartime duplicity, his Politburo comrades found reasons to delay Stalin's orders for a trial. They delayed the arrangements so long that Stalin died before...
...Hungary have long been voted the most likely to break with their Kremlin masters. None of the others provides quite the same combination of 1) out-of-power Communist leadership with some support in the country, 2) an active and eager citizenry ready to seize opportunities. Observers in Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania reported discontent, diluted by docility, passivity and cynicism. In Czechoslovakia and East Germany, tension and ferment had the Communist rulers worried...