Word: khrushchevism
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...thin welcoming crowd was not exactly eager to make him an honorary citizen. Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching...
...real reason for Khrushchev's presence in East Berlin, of course, was not that he wanted to help Ulbricht blow out the candles, nor was it entirely a matter of trying to counteract the emotions stirred up by the Kennedy visit. Most of all, Khrushchev wanted to meet with his East European satellite chiefs to close ranks before the Chinese arrive in Moscow this week to confer on the worsening Sino-Soviet ideological split...
Distribution Problem. Their dispute grew so angry last week that Moscow resorted to expelling Chinese diplomats, a treatment hitherto reserved for Western representatives. Behind this latest explosion was a 24,000-word Peking blast at Khrushchev's policies, designed to show that his peaceful coexistence line is a cowardly betrayal of true Red revolutionaries, that he is shilly-shallying with the "paper tigers" of imperialism, and that he is "subverting" other Communist parties. When the Russians refused to publish the Peking letter, issued two weeks ago, the Chinese embassy in Moscow started circulating copies, thereby provoking the Kremlin...
Peking called the action "unreasonable and untenable," noted that it was "unprecedented in the history of the relations between our two Socialist countries," and accused Moscow of deliberately trying to create obstacles to the scheduled talks. Even as Khrushchev arrived in East Berlin, the Chinese embassy there went right ahead distributing copies of the Peking manifesto to interested bystanders...
Stalin's Ghost. On hand for talks with Khrushchev in East Berlin were the satellite chiefs of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Absent, at least from among early arrivals: Rumanian Red Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...