Word: khrushchev
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...Baptism. Since then Walter Ulbricht has ruled his people with deft application of both the carrot and the stick, always careful to keep in step with the word from Moscow. In 1956, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's old friend Ulbricht was quick to echo the new line ("One cannot reckon Stalin among the classic Marxists"). For all the thaw, Ulbricht soon cracked down on students and teachers who had friendly ideas of their own, arresting dozens, expelling scores from their universities. To stamp out religion and give new meaning to socialism, Ulbricht introduced...
Still Hope. Walter Ulbricht will never be happy until his troubled land is elevated from occupied status to become a full-fledged, sovereign nation. This Nikita Khrushchev has promised time and time again since 1958, as he has threatened to sign a peace treaty and let the German Democratic Republic take over its own affairs (including control of the West's presence in, and access to, Berlin). The current mood in Moscow is to give Ulbricht his treaty this fall. So far, virtually no important non-Communist nation has recognized the G.D.R. diplomatically, but Ulbricht is working feverishly...
Highest-ranking Soviet official ever to visit Japan, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was all smiles under his toothbrush mustache. When he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week, he exuded the folksy, traveling-salesman style that he and his proverb-prattling boss Nikita Khrushchev have made famous. "You have a saying that goes, 'A good neighbor is better than a distant relative,' " he told his hosts. "We live right next door to each other, and our relations should be those of good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while...
While Titov ate and slept, whirling on an ellipse that ranged from 111 miles to 158 miles above the earth, Premier Khrushchev promoted the orbiting cosmonaut from captain to major, also promoted him from candidate to full Communist Party member. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin cut short a trip to Canada, flew back to Moscow to be on hand to greet Titov. Western scientists and technicians went about the business of tracking Titov's progress with understandable lack of enthusiasm. "It makes me sick to my stomach," growled one U.S. Air Force officer...
...better at athletics than books, was an expert gymnast and bicycle racer before he elected to go to flying school and the Red air force rather than college. And like Gagarin, Titov was treated to a hero's welcome when he finally returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with kisses. It was a gooey occasion. Thousands of Muscovites jammed Red Square to toast Titov as he stood saluting atop Lenin's tomb, while helicopters overhead rained...