Word: carrillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians did not publish the article until after the Spanish election, in which the Communists won only just over 9% of the vote, presumably because they feared their attack might have helped Carrillo and his colleagues at the polls had it come earlier. Last week the volume of Communism's new intramural scrap increased a notch when Carrillo replied to the Soviet assault. Said he jauntily at a Madrid press conference: "I didn't expect an excommunication decree from the Holy Office." Soon, he cracked, he would publish the New Times article in Spain, along with "clarifying notes...
...Carrillo speculated that the Soviets might be trying to split the Spanish Communists and set up a rival party. If that was indeed Moscow's strategy, it would be risky. After 1968, when Carrillo blasted the Soviets for invading Czechoslovakia, Moscow tried to oust him by giving financial aid to a onetime general in the Spanish Civil War, Enrique Lister, who now lives in exile in France. The move flopped, and the Spanish party was subsequently purged of its Soviet sympathizers...
Last week the party's 135-member Central Committee voted almost unanimously to reject the Soviet charges against Carrillo and to reaffirm their commitment to Eurocommunism. They maintained that Spain's Communists are answerable only to their supporters in Spain...
Past Transgressions. While the Soviets were angry with Carrillo for his book, as well as his past transgressions, the New Times diatribe was clearly a signal both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting...
...what is bad for Moscow is by no means automatically good for Washington. Like the other Eurocommunists, Santiago Carrillo, maverick though he may be, is ultimately as opposed to Western systems as he is to the Soviet dictatorship...