Word: khrushchevism
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...Soviet Union now concluded its test series? This brought forth the whimsical Khrushchev: "We stop in the evening and start in the morning." He was asked what would happen to Vyacheslav Molotov, who last week grimly left Vienna for home-and seemed on the verge of being expelled from the Communist Party, together with other "antiparty" heretics. This summoned up the confident Khrushchev. Said he airily: "Molotov belongs to the past...
Party Hack. Things were even stickier in Red China, where the leadership continues to reminisce fondly about Stalin and to applaud Albania's nose-thumbing of Khrushchev. By ironic coincidence, last week was also the 20th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party, which provided occasion for counterfire. Khrushchev may have accused the Albanian Reds of such terrorism that "even pregnant women are shot," but Peking sent congratulations to Tirana, praised the "correct leadership" of Albanian Boss Enver Hoxha, and crooned that the Chinese people admire the Albanian people "from the bottom of their hearts...
...week's end, over Radio Tirana, brash Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah), carried the attack directly to Khrushchev, warning that Albania "was not alone" in resisting Khrushchev's "calumnies, blackmail and blockade." The main issue, said Hoxha, was settling the problem of West Berlin and signing a peace treaty with East Germany. He bluntly accused Khrushchev of dragging his feet and of delaying "from year to year...
...Soviet theory of "peaceful coexistence" with the West, said Hoxha, was simply another way of "giving up the struggle" against imperialism. He insisted that Albania was not "throwing mud" on the Soviet Union,* but that it was Khrushchev who was libeling Albania, "just like the reactionary bourgeois press," by describing it as a country where "terror and murder held sway." To Khrushchev's charge that there was no "democracy" within the Albanian Communist Party, Hoxha insolently replied: "Better watch your own affairs...
...cleaned-up version of the taunt made in Moscow last year when an enraged Nikita Khrushchev shouted at Hoxha: "Comrade, you have covered me with dung. You will have to wash...