Word: khrushchevism
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After Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, it took Pravda 22 months to print all the names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...
...declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel . . . They either make endless concessions to the enemy and thus commit the error of capitulationism, or act recklessly and thus commit the error of adventurism." Peking added contemptuously that Communists like Russia's Khrushchev, Italy's Togliatti and France's Thorez, who advocated "peaceful" revolution in the West, were guilty of "parliamentary cretinism...
Moscow did not shout back last week; but it could not long remain silent, lest Khrushchev appear to be the "coward" that Mao now called him. Now that the Chinese Reds have nailed their theses tothe Kremlin wall, some men in Moscow would be thinking of excommunication. Stalin's posthumous excommunication took only three years to accomplish; and already the Sino-Soviet quarrel has raged for longer than that...
...collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev's promise to give the Soviet people more bread again was thwarted. The fall guy for 1962 naturally was Pysin; this year it could very well be Volovchenko. As the new Agriculture Minister must be painfully aware, he is the fourth man to occupy the perilous post in three...
...slouch himself when it comes to campaign promises, Khrushchev told the folks that "probably each one of you would like to have a far better suit or dress to wear." Well, said he, "the time will come" when every Soviet citizen will actually have three suits of clothes-one, presumably, for his birthday, one for his wedding and one for his funeral. "Now," added artful Nikita, "if I were to promise you that you'll have three new suits next year, you'd say that I was drunk." To stormy applause, the old pro sat down. In Kalinin...