Word: comecon
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...visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they meekly bow to Moscow's bidding in the ideological battle with China...
...garrulous lines of Communist ideology. First, Izvestia apologized for an article written by an obscure Soviet economist named Valev, who had suggested that a big chunk of Rumania be peeled off for a "Lower Danube Project" aimed at providing more hydroelectric power and irrigation for the Red common market, Comecon...
Behind the quarrel lies Russia's conception of Rumania's role in COMECON, which in 1960 prescribed a division of tasks among Eastern Europe's Communist nations that would have left East Germany and Czechoslovakia as the chief industrial producers of Eastern Europe's Communist world. Under this plan, Rumania, with its oil and farm produce, would have remained largely a provider of raw materials. Rumanian Communist Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, wanting industries of his own, said no to Nikita. Looking outside the Soviet bloc, he proceeded to purchase iron ore from India and turned...
...tighten his grip on the Eastern European satellites, and Rumania was doing well without any more help from Nikita. Rumania boasts the highest industrial growth rate in Europe, a phenomenal 15%, and has achieved that growth by defying Moscow. The original role Khrushchev had charted for Rumania under its Comecon plan-the Red version of the Common Market-was that of an agricultural exporter and supplier of oil and petrochemicals. Dej refused to accept this "dumb-peasant" role, struck out on his own three years ago to do as much business with the West as possible...
...RUMANIA. Rebelling against its COMECON-assigned role as Eastern Europe's vegetable garden and oilfield, Rumania has turned to the West for iron and aluminum plants. A new three-year trade agreement with West Germany provides for an exchange of goods worth $300 million. But Rumania must finance industrialization by exporting food. The unhappy result is a severe food shortage and painfully high prices; eggs go for 20? apiece...