Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poland shares the Rumanian attitude, but is more anxious than Dej to please the new Russian leadership. Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed himself to be talked out of his misgivings over Khrushchev's fall, was quick to endorse B. & K. Gomulka wants to preserve his country's relative "Liberalism" and fears that a final split would cancel his freedom of action. The Polish public, however, fears that a détente with China might encourage the influential Stalinist elements that lurk within the Polish Communist Party...
...Hungary, where Janos Kadar enjoyed a "special relationship" with Khrushchev, has more internal freedom and more contact with the West than any bloc nation, despite the continued presence of Red Army troops. Last year some 70,000 Hungarians traveled in the West, while 200,000 Westerners-mainly Austrians, Italians and West Germans, as well as 12,000 Americans-came in and spent money. Budapest, with its fine but expensive restaurants, its Magyar beauties in beehive hairdos, its "Rockola" jukebox parlors, its elegant Hotel Gellert surrounded by Jags, Mercedes and Alfa Romeos, is by far the most European city...
...Czechoslovakia, whose precariously balanced boss Antonin Novotny faces "elections" this month, was also tied closely to Khrushchev. Novotny failed to show at Moscow last week, sent his second-in-command, Party Secretary Jiri Hendrych, instead. At the same time, the Czechs announced sweeping economic reforms that effectively reject the Soviet system of centralized control, reoriented Czechoslovakia's lagging industry-once Eastern Europe's most advanced-along more Western lines. The profit motive is being given fuller play, and factory owners are permitted to work out their own supply-and-demand schedules...
Food & Trade. There are more vegetables, pork and eggs. In many areas pork is off the ration, though its price makes it a luxury. Despite the ridicule he heaped on Khrushchev's incentive measures, Mao permits hog farmers, after delivering their fixed quotas to collectives, to sell the balance on a free market. Dogs and cats, slaughtered wholesale for food during the Leap, are again appearing with impunity in Peking and Shanghai, and even birds-once relentlessly exterminated as predators-have returned to Canton...
...second time Olga had had to pay for her devotion: after the Stalin regime accused Paster nak of intellectual heresy, she spent four years in a concentration camp, was re leased only in the amnesty following Stalin's death in 1953. Last week, possibly as a consequence of Khrushchev's ouster, Olga, at 59, was again free...