Word: khrushchevism
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Heeding a piercing and highly public appeal for help from Archbishop Makarios, Nikita Khrushchev duly pledged Russian aid should anyone (read Turkey) invade Cyprus. But Khrushchev also called for moderation and warned Makarios to lift his economic blockade of the Turkish Cypriots. Still, even the remote prospect of direct Russian intervention seemed a little chilling to all sides...
Freed from the damaging image of the Oriental despot in the Kremlin, Togliatti tried harder than ever to make Communism look as respectable as his own blue serge suits and as jovial as his sweaters. Long before Khrushchev invented goulash Communism, Togliatti invented spaghetti Communism. He no longer concentrated the Red appeal only on the masses, but turned to shopkeepers battling supermarket competition, housewives trying to balance the family budget, and small businessmen in need of tax relief...
...invitation, Khrushchev was careful to allay fears; indeed, the tone of the Pravda editorial was almost wheedling. It solemnly endorsed the "unity through diversity" that Gheorghiu-Dej has demanded, and swore that the purpose of the meeting was not to "excommunicate" anybody. Where earlier this year, Moscow had boasted that "nearly all" parties were in favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions...
...rest-about half-have been going on to polytechnic schools for three more years to become technicians or to be part of the 12% of Russians who go to college. This is the shape of the plan for "eleven years of schooling" that was proclaimed by Nikita Khrushchev...
...past four years, was invented by a firm that sounds as if it had been founded by Jules Verne; Compagnie d'Applications Mecaniques à 1'Electronique au Cinéma et à 1'Atomistique (CAMECA). Since then it has spread from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy and A Boy in Khaki...