Word: dej
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...
...that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
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...
Since last March, Dej has been trying to avoid a complete Sino-Soviet rupture, while believing that a complete rapprochement is neither possible nor desirable. Dej wants an amorphous Communist "commonwealth" in which Peking would provide steady ideological opposition to Moscow, thus permitting individual nations like Rumania to maneuver between the two poles. To show his continued independence, Dej himself stayed away from last week's Moscow meeting, instead sent Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer, his glad-handing traveling...
...Poland shares the Rumanian attitude, but is more anxious than Dej to please the new Russian leadership. Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed himself to be talked out of his misgivings over Khrushchev's fall, was quick to endorse B. & K. Gomulka wants to preserve his country's relative "Liberalism" and fears that a final split would cancel his freedom of action. The Polish public, however, fears that a détente with China might encourage the influential Stalinist elements that lurk within the Polish Communist Party...