Word: khrushchevism
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...present division of power and influence, and now the reversal of alliances cannot be effected overnight. Thus the mass media had to show tact in taking for truth the pronouncements of men like Mikhail Suslov, once branded as liars. Unable to bring themselves to a specific espousal of the Khrushchev cause, the media have achieved their goal by simply presenting the Khrushchev version of what the dispute is all about: war vs. coexistence, racism vs. socialism, Stalinist rigidity vs. an attempt at democracy...
...issues at hand. The primary grievance, dating back to the mid-fifties, centers on the inadequacy and finally the withdrawal of Soviet economic aid. The Rumanian delegation that journeyed to Peking several months ago, in the hope of renewing Russo-Chinese dialogue, heard the most vitriolic denunciation of Premier Khrushchev, whom the Chinese blame personally for reneging on the large aid-and-trade agreement that followed Stalin's death. The Rumanians had to insist that Khrushchev is but a responsive politician, attuned to the desires of of a people who, after 45 years of paying for their own industrialization...
...Chinese Communism won him the enmity, not the admiration, of Mao Tse Tung. As for de-Stalinization, Isaac Deutscher is not the only student of Communist affairs who regards Mao's abortive effort to "let a hundred flowers bloom" as a more sincere attempt to liberalize Chinese society than Khrushchev's own halting program in Russia...
Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...
Booted. The most prevalent explanation was that Asahi Shimbun's Moscow correspondent, Takeo Kuba, had imperfectly translated Russian cablese KHRUSHCHEV ZAKONCHIL (has ended it), with which Tass had wound up its transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...