Word: khrushchevism
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...John Kennedy once remarked that he didn't like to wake up in the morning and read newspaper stories about Khrushchev or Mao or Castro or any other unfriendly fellow. What he wanted was headlines about the President of the U.S., and he was engagingly candid about his desire for public "visibility...
...Asia it looks Western. Both the Russians and the Chinese passionately claim it as their own. On either side of the great split that now divides the Communist world, the disputants exalt Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as their patron and prophet. Lenin looks on as, in his name, Nikita Khrushchev denounces the Chinese as dogmatists, fools, adventurers and warmongers. And Lenin looks on as, in his name, Mao Tse-tung denounces the Russians as revisionists, traitors, bourgeois cowards and capitulationists...
...been dead for 40 years, lying inside a glass coffin in the squat redgranite mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, where thousands of Soviet citizens queue up to march soberly past his waxy form, guarded by rigid Russian soldiers as immobile as the corpse. Not long ago, when Khrushchev was asked how Lenin's remains were kept looking so lifelike, he replied: "That's easy. We just take him out once a month and re-embalm him." So it is with Lenin's ideological remains. Constantly re-embalmed, retouched, re-clothed, he remains at the center...
Perhaps the best policy would be a mixture of the two alternatives. It would be insane to announce our intention to free East Germany, but the relaxation of tensions which would probably follow Khrushchev's death might offer a real opportunity to strengthen U.S. economic and cultural ties with the nations of Eastern Europe...
These are not offensive policies; in the end they might strengthen the peace that Khrushchev and Kennedy achieved together. They are, on the other hand, valid foreign policy objectives for the United States which the Soviets could meet without loss of face...