Word: khrushchevism
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...East Germany another possibly embarrassing meeting was avoided. Just as delegates to the Communist-front World Federation of Trade Unions had unpacked their bags in Leipzig for a skull session on the challenge of the thriving Common Market, they got word from Moscow to start packing again. Khrushchev hates and fears the Common Market and demands that other Communist parties take a tough line too. But Poland, which conducts 20% of its trade with the Six and Great Britain, takes a moderate stand; Italian and Belgian Communists, whose working-class members share in the prosperous capitalist economic community, have already...
...were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face. Now it was Khrushchev's turn to pick up the pieces...
...delegate from Peking's Central Committee was in Sofia, and the purge of the Stalinists was more than he could bear. Heatedly he attacked Bulgarian obedience to Khrushchev's "revisionist" line, defiantly reported Peking's determination to support Fidel Castro in his hour of abandonment by Moscow. The Chinese delegate began his speech to warm applause; he finished to icy silence...
Hoarse Shouts. Back home in Peking, things got even rougher. In some of the strongest abuse it has yet heaped on Khrushchev, Red China labeled Moscow's Cuban retreat "appeasement" and accused the Kremlin of trying to "play the Munich scheme against the Cuban peopie." Day after day, mass rallies of schoolchildren and workers shouted themselves hoarse to back Castro; the regime flooded cities and towns with millions of militant pamphlets...
...swarmed out on the inaugural day to have a look. Most of the spectators came on foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand-new roadbed. Even Premier Nikita Khrushchev had his driver take him out for a run around the circuit in his sleek Chaika limousine. Acknowledging the cheers of bystanders, Khrushchev paused to congratulate officials, urged them to put up some restaurants and motels along the way. And, suggested Khrushchev in an afterthought, next time they build...