Word: feare
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...November expounded a new policy asserting that members of the Socialist Commonwealth have the right to intervene in the affairs of another member whenever the purity and primacy of socialism are endangered in that country. Foreign Communists who feel most threatened by the policy, notably the Rumanians and Yugoslavs, fear that the So viets will use the doctrine not only to keep any socialist country from defecting to the Western camp, but also to enforce their own brand of political orthodoxy. As Lumea, the Rumanian foreign-news weekly, declared: "Limited sovereignty makes no more sense than limited honesty...
...request was likely to go unhonored, if for no other reason than that the Italian Communists, who have great hopes for doing well in the next gen eral elections, fear the influence that the Brezhnev Doctrine would have on Italian voters. They can foresee their opponents' campaign slogan: "Put the Communists in power and the Red army will keep them there...
...economic front, limited innovation, such as the introduction of a form of the profit motive and expansion of managerial authority, is being attempted to improve output and efficiency. But Soviet-style Communists resist any thoroughgoing reform for fear that economic liberalization might spill over into social and political areas. Soviet Communism remains in command throughout most of Eastern Europe, constitutes the major influence on the French party, and controls a number of minor "pocket parties" such as the one in the U.S. and nearly all of the small Middle Eastern and Latin American parties...
Among ruling Communist parties, the reformist showcase is the Yugoslavia of Josip Broz Tito, Communism's first heretic. There is far more freedom of expression and action in Yugoslavia than in any other country of Eastern Europe. Newsstands and bookshops offer Yugoslavs easy access to Western publications without fear of reprisals. There is, of course, censorship; certain books, like Milovan Djilas' works, are not available, and the press is controlled. Yugoslavs, if they can afford it, can travel abroad freely, in the East or West. Conversely, Westerners, whether tourists, businessmen or journalists, gain ready admission to Yugoslavia. By scrapping Communism...
...20th and 22nd congresses exposed and condemned Stalin for his heinous crimes against the party and the people. The Stalinist autocratic dictatorship, the tyranny of the security organs that for decades held society in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror, the concentration camps in which millions of innocent people perished, the criminal policy on nationalities under which whole nations were repressed, the blind alley our national economy had reached, the stagnation of science and culture, the low wage level, the low consumption level, the catastrophic housing crisis and many monstrous manifestations of the Stalinist dictatorship were condemned...