Word: khrushchevism
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Citizens of the Soviet farm belt apparently either ignore orders or embarrass everyone by following them to the letter. In a speech last June in Central Asia, Khrushchev cried: "Comrades, you should do everything to develop herds of horses for meat. I don't need to tell you that horse meat is tasty and nourishing." A Tashkent newspaper last week complained that some Uzbek farmers had taken Khrushchev at his word and had rushed 18 thoroughbreds and three pedigreed stallions straight from the local race track to the slaughterhouse...
...authority, the Communist bureaucracy under Stalin sent out imperious orders telling the farmers when and what to plant, when and where to reap. Farm machinery, trucks, tractors, fertilizers and even seed were controlled by bureaus in Moscow that drove farmers to frenzy with missed deadlines and frustrating delays. When Khrushchev took over, he broke up the tractor stations and scattered the mechanized farm implements among individual collective farms. A massive effort was made to streamline the system by packing the bureaucrats off to the countryside. As a result, collective farms now get their orders from the nearest provincial capital instead...
...Nikita Khrushchev is having difficulties of his own. To achieve theoretically perfect socialism, Khrushchev knows that he must somehow persuade the peasant that it is more profitable to produce for the collective farm than for himself on private land. But Moscow dare not move just yet against the private system, which is clearly more efficient than the state farms...
...explodes Nikita Khrushchev. "We sent the astronaut Titov up there and he looked all over and didn't see it anywhere...
...this international growth, Behrendt is not content with mere angry words. For the last seven years, as the Algemeen Handelsblad's editorial cartoonist, he has thrust repeatedly at world Communism with one of the sharpest and most therapeutic pens in all of Europe. He attacks his favorite target, Khrushchev, with such passion that the paper occasionally feels it necessary to put the damper on Fritz: last week his editors vetoed a Behrendt proposal to draw two Dutchmen convicted in Kiev as spies, beneath a bed occupied by a snoozing Khrushchev. Most of the paper's 70,000 subscribers...