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...cards read: ASK THE MANAGER ABOUT OTHER CHOICE COMMUNIST GOODS FOR SALE IN THIS STORE, OR BUY ALL YOUR COMMUNIST GOODS AT THIS STORE. Very often, this "card party" tactic has its desired effect: the store removes the tainted merchandise -Polish hams, Czechoslovakian glass, Yugoslavian coat hangers, Hungarian handbags, Bulgarian hat racks, East German watches -that had been imported from Iron Curtain countries...
...from Peking, who two weeks ago in Sofia had witnessed a purge of Red Chinese sympathizers and Stalinists in the Bulgarian Communist Party, would not be shouted down. The revisionists, he shot back, as usual using Tito as a synonym for Khrushchev, were "despicable traitors of the working class...
...told the opening session of a party congress in Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face. Now it was Khrushchev's turn to pick up the pieces...
...delegate from Peking's Central Committee was in Sofia, and the purge of the Stalinists was more than he could bear. Heatedly he attacked Bulgarian obedience to Khrushchev's "revisionist" line, defiantly reported Peking's determination to support Fidel Castro in his hour of abandonment by Moscow. The Chinese delegate began his speech to warm applause; he finished to icy silence...
After dispensing advice on how failing collectives could pull themselves together and "become a Bulgarian Iowa," he lectured some local Communists for their opposition to destalinization. Then Khrushchev remembered that Western correspondents were in the audience; in the middle of a table-thumping denunciation of Stalin, he cut himself short. "But enough," he said. "The world is listening." The world was indeed listening, mostly for his reaction to the war in Southeast Asia. Khrushchev sounded rather mild-for Khrushchev. He condemned the dispatch of U.S. troops to Thailand as "unwise," and predicted that the move would lead to a Korea...