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...latest blast, a 24,000-word article in People's Daily: "A privileged bourgeois stratum has emerged in Soviet society." In fact, Khrushchev's "phony Communism" is restoring the "forces of capitalism" and substituting for the class struggle "the struggle for a good dish of goulash." It is the "Communism of the American way of life, and Communism seeking credits from the devil...
Khrushchev hit hard at what he presents as the two main issues of the quarrel: 1) peaceful coexistence v. war, and 2) peaceful evolution toward Communism v. violent revolution. Returning to the defense of what the West has already taken to calling "goulash Communism," he said, in effect, that it is easier to fight a revolution on a full belly than on an empty one. The Chinese, he sneered, want him to tell the Russian people: "The economy has been sufficiently developed. Let us produce less so as not to become fat and thereby grow like the bourgeoisie...
...Budapest Optical Works, Khrushchev said he had been informed that factories in the liveries of electric motors. Searching through his entourage, he spotted tall, bald Petr Shelest, first secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party. "The culprit is among us," Nikita announced sarcastically. "Here is Comrade Shelest eating Hungarian goulash while his factories fail to deliver...
...Horse Goulash. The new class of big-time duty dodgers is made up of businessmen of outwardly high repute, worthy of being called mein Herr. Unlike other smugglers, they do not usually seek to avoid customs altogether, in stead try to beat down the duty they have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain...
...within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge to bring in canned Yugoslavian horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost 3,000,000 lbs. of beef from South America by sending it first to Ireland and Australia, making false bills and shipping it on to Germany; the swindle was discovered when someone forgot to extract a bill of lading from...