Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reporter Salisbury ended, the Times itself felt it necessary to warn readers in an editorial against "wishful thinking" about Moscow's intentions: "Premier Khrushchev may well be anxious to avoid a nuclear war as long as the West is strong enough to meet a Soviet attack with retaliatory nuclear annihilation . . . But this does not necessarily mean real peace. 'Peaceful coexistence' may be nothing more than a way of waging all but nuclear war to assure a Communist world triumph...
...elections were the latest installment of a political cliffhanger that began last fall when Moscow started making menacing noises suggesting a Soviet military move against Finland. At the time, President Kekkonen rushed to Siberia for a soothing meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, assured him of Finland's firm friendship with Russia, and returned home with a ringing plea that Finnish anti-Communists ought to quit public life. Only a few took his advice. In presidential elections last month, Kekkonen himself was overwhelmingly re-elected as the man who could get along with Moscow. In last week's parliamentary race...
...Khrushchev's destalinization drive and the Sino-Soviet conflict have plunged the Italian Communist movement into bitter internal quarrels...
...extreme are a minority of diehard Stalinists, longing for the early postwar years when Communist partisans expectantly scrawled signs, "Ha da veni' Baffone"-Big Mustache (Stalin) is coming. They blame Khrushchev's coexistence politics for shattering the unity of the Soviet bloc. Togliatti's support of Khrushchev, says Senior Stalinist Mauro Scoccimarro, 66, has "created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted...
Also opposing Khrushchev and Togliatti, but for different reasons, are a growing number of young radicals who almost captured control of the party in 1960 and who, since the Moscow Congress last fall, have returned to the attack. Charging the Italian Communist leadership with "coresponsibility" for Stalin's crimes, the so-called "renovators"' demand democratization of internal party affairs, greater freedom from Soviet dictation. Leader of the renovators is burly Giorgio Amendola, 54, a skillful organizer who has never visited Russia or its satellites and has no desire to do so because, he says, low living standards "depress...