Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally alarming to many Communists. Enunciated first by Pravda, the official party newspaper, and later by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a speech at the United Nations, the Soviet Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the new Soviet policy poses a threat to the sovereignty of any Communist country. No matter what doubletalk Moscow ideologues may use to disguise it, the new policy is nothing less than a doctrine of Russian imperialism...
...Czechoslovakia. East Germany opened trials in East Berlin of some 100 people who protested against the Warsaw Pact invasion. Ironically, among those sentenced to a two-year prison term was a woman named Sandra Weigl. She is related to Playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose works reflected his hope that Communism would end man's inhumanity to man and usher in a new age of justice...
...counterrevolution. The Soviets made the charge in a pamphlet now being distributed in Czechoslovakia. Dismissing the Soviet arguments as "inventions" and "schoolboy sins against logic," the academy, which is composed of the country's leading intellectual figures, warned against the Soviet Union's unwillingness to allow Communism to accommodate to change. Said the academy: "The metaphysical conception of Socialism as a perfect system leads logically to the conclusion that any criticism of deficiencies and contradictions [in the system] is considered indiscriminately as revisionist and anti-Socialist and is identified with counterrevolution and reaction...
Splits Within Splits. In the free world, Communist anger at Moscow is greatest in Western Europe, where Communist parties are strongest. Since these parties seek to gain power by votes, and not by revolution, a liberalizing Czechoslovakia was an excellent advertisement for the image of Communism that they wished to project. Now that the Soviets have shattered that benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction...
...Mitchell, speaking on "Communism in the U.S.A.," said that the defeat of Hubert Humphrey would be proof of "the irrelevance of liberalism" to the problems of contemporary society. "Even if Humphrey wins," she said, "it will only be because his New Deal smile has become a mouth-piece for 'law and order' blacklash...