Word: khrushchevism
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Chou En-lai went on to chide Khrushchev for his "public denunciation" of Albania: "To openly display in the enemy's presence disputes between brother countries cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach, and can only distress friends and delight our enemies...
...once, Khrushchev switched his attack to the smallest and least important of Red countries-Albania (see map). He complained that the Albanian Communist Party had remained Stalinist and added darkly: "We cannot make a concession on that fundamental point, either to the Albanian leaders-or to anyone else...
Brother Countries. In the devious rhetoric of Communism, Khrushchev was speaking plainly enough. His blasts against the "antiparty" group, which has long since been put out of action, and against little Albania were really aimed at Red China. The presumed differences: Peking's familiar "Stalinist" demands for more militancy against the West and less talk of peaceful coexistence, and its striving for Chinese pre-eminence over Moscow in Asian affairs. A sign of Russian worry over Red China's ambition came last week in one of those veiled moves that can have considerable significance in the Communist world...
...that Red China was a friend of the Soviet Union and of "all other countries in the Socialist camp, which extends from North Korea to East Germany, and from North Viet Nam to Albania." A scattering of applause was swiftly silenced when the nearly 5,000 delegates saw that Khrushchev and the other members of the Party Presidium were sitting motionless...
Chou then delivered a typical harangue against the U.S., but no one was really listening. As succeeding speakers came to the stand, each was clearly casting his vote in the row between Nikita Khrushchev and China's Mao Tse-tung, the exalted twosome of Communism. One after the other, Khrushchev's Soviet comrades called down fire and brimstone on the anti-party group and defiant Albania. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, East Germany's tottering Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Kadar, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej followed suit...