Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three years after he stormed out of the 22nd Party Congress and thereby...
...that matter, was Angelo Litrico, a non-Communist tailor in Rome. Alas for Angelo, he was busy making two new suits for Khrushchev the day of his ouster. A single-breasted black and a double-breasted grey, custom-made for Nikita's projected visit to West Germany. The folks on No. 3 Granovsky Street may never get to see them, nor the tailor his money...
Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...
...world was saddened to read of the passing of Herbert C. Hoover [Oct. 30]. In an adjoining column of your magazine, we also read a report of Khrushchev possibly being under house arrest. What a contrast in the treatment shown former leaders, controversial though they may be! Need anyone ask the difference between democracy and Communism...
...Every recognized expert on Soviet matters was greatly surprised at the sudden removal of Khrushchev, but they need not have been had they read your cover story of last Feb. 21. You as much as predicted the eventual rise of Brezhnev to the premiership...