Word: carrillo
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...immediate target of Soviet wrath is Spanish Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo. In tones reminiscent of Moscow's strident broadsides against Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in the late 1940s and '50s, and China's Mao Tse-tung since the '60s, the Soviet weekly New Times blasted Carrillo, his new book Eurocommunism and the State, and the whole notion that Marxist societies can be established in Western Europe that would be independent of the Soviet Union...
...Leonid Brezhnev in Paris grumbled about the U.S., that was nothing compared with the tongue-lashing administered by the Kremlin to fellow Communists in Western Europe. An unsigned 5,000-word article in New Times -a Soviet weekly devoted primarily to foreign affairs-savaged Spanish Communist Party Leader Santiago Carrillo with the kind of language normally reserved for the Chinese. He was charged with advocating "crude anti-Sovietism," making "slanderous allegations" and taking "unsavory positions...
...Santiago Carrillo is probably Western Europe's most independent-minded Communist. He has, for example, openly condemned the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hence Moscow's attack on him did not come as a great surprise, although the force of it was. The target of the New Times article was Carrillo's new book. Eurocommunism and the State, a spirited advocacy of the Eurocommunist movement, which maintains that a Marxian society can be pluralistic and independent of Moscow...
Spain's Communist leaders remained unruffled. For one thing, such attacks from Moscow seem to confirm Carrillo's independence and could thus increase his party's popularity among Spanish voters. For another, as Party Spokesman Angel Mullor explained, the article "has not surprised us in any way. What is lamentable is that it shows the inability of its authors [to discuss] these themes without prejudice and obstinate dogma...
There were rumors of a military coup, but after a tense meeting, the conservative Army Superior Council agreed to accept the government's decision "for patriotism's sake." Exiles were given passports to return home. Carrillo led the way, followed by others, including La Pasionaria from Moscow and Communist Poet Rafael Alberti from Rome. This spring Suárez's government legalized trade unions and restored the right of workers to strike. Finally, it reestablished diplomatic relations, severed since 1939, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...