Word: comecon
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...troops left the country in 1958. It has cut down both the size of its army and the duty tenure and has reserved the right to decide on its own whether to go to war with the rest of the countries in the pact. Bucharest boycotted the plan of Comecon, the bloc's common market, to make the nation merely a provider of gasoline and grain, instead is busy building a broad industrial base from which to trade West as well as East...
Bear Twist. Rumanians have always hated the Russians anyway, but Gheorghiu-Dej chafed particularly under the raw-material-supplying role assigned his country by the Soviets' version of the Common Market, Comecon. He had no intention of letting Rumania be a combination "market garden" and "gas station." Instead, he talked the Soviets into supplying iron ore and machinery for the construction of a huge steel complex at Galati...
Over the past few years these men have grown ever more diverse in their national interests and their approaches to everything from Comecon to the Sino-Soviet split. Prime disunifier of the lot was Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who had not deigned to talk publicly with Russian leaders in 18 months. He agreed to talk this time, but the official silence was appalling...
...delighted both with Khrushchev's fall and the prospect of keeping Red China within the pale of the Communist movement. Nikita was threatening to make things hot for independent-minded Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose refusal to turn his oil-rich nation into a "gas station" for Comecon threw Khrushchev's bloc-wide economic scheme out of kilter...
...SATELLITES. He proclaimed the right of each national Communist Party to self-determination, but he let this concept go too far, losing control and causing disarray in the Eastern alliance. Rumania, for instance, would not play ball with Russia's self-serving Comecon (common market); and Hungary, which Khrushchev brutally suppressed during the 1956 rebellion, became daring enough to allow scornful "political cabaret" acts to have free reign. All this illustrated the dictator's classic problem: once he loosens his grip, it is hard to know where, when, or if things will stop...