Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heady days after Suez, when Russian MIGs were uncrated in Cairo and Nikita Khrushchev grandly picked up the tab for the Aswan Dam, such a turn of affairs could not have been imagined. But in Cairo last week, big red headlines hit the street. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...schism had been long in the making. For years, Nasser had been jailing home-grown Communists-even while toasting Soviet dignitaries and signing new trade pacts with the Communist bloc. He has effectively purged them from the government, the press, the schools. Khrushchev's flirtation with Arab nationalism seemed to have come to nothing but a costly flop, and he was under pressure from the Red Chinese, who condemned aid to Nasser as an "opportunistic error...
...month ago, Khrushchev sounded off to a U.A.R. parliamentary delegation visiting Moscow. "If our people live under Communism better than you, why should you declare yourself against Communism?" he asked, according to a transcript released by the U.A.R. just last week. "I warn you. History will teach you. Ideologies cannot be buried in prisons. Your people will ask you to step aside and demand that they handle their own affairs." Soon the Moscow press was condemning the U.A.R. as an "ingrate" and mourning the fate of a Lebanese Communist, Riadel Turk, who had supposedly been tortured to death in prison...
...Khrushchev hoped to cow Nasser, the campaign was a failure. Snapped the daily Al Akhbar: "Arab public opinion is not ready to take lessons on freedom from the organizers of the blood baths in Mosul and Kirkuk" (where Iraqi Communists massacred their opponents two years ago). Columnist Mohammed el Tabee vowed: "We shall not tolerate any country's becoming the gate through which Communism can penetrate into the heart of the Arab world." Rallying behind Nasser, four members of the Arab League -Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan-denounced Russia for "interfering in the domestic affairs of an Arab...
...Khrushchev could apply an economic squeeze at any time by shutting off aid-but this would turn Nasser even further toward the West. Nasser can justifiably claim to have invented the neutralist gambit of playing East against West and shows no signs of losing his nerve now. Last week delegates from 21 nations gathered in Cairo to plan a big neutralist get-together in September. "We are putting our case before the Asians and Africans," said one official, "so they can see that power politics is practiced by both sides. East as well as West...