Word: khrushchevism
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...West was going to war if Khrushchev simply signed a peace treaty with East Germany's Ulbricht. But the Western allies were pledged-and prepared-to fight if necessary to protect the 2,200,000 doughty West Berliners and their life line to the West...
Whatever else Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha might be, he has proved himself a spunky fellow. Who else would dare walk into the big international Communist powwow in Moscow last November and call Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face? Indeed, Hoxha's blasphemy went even farther, according to a partial transcript of his speech that reached the outside world last week...
...cult of personality does not apply only to Stalin," sneered 52-year-old Hoxha (pronounced Ho-ja), as the delegates from 81 worldwide Communist parties sat gaping. "Khrushchev has distorted the theses of Leninism to suit his own purposes!" Hoxha sided flatly with Red China in the ideological battle to keep Stalinism alive, lashed out at Moscow for organizing the vendetta against Peking at last summer's Bucharest conference...
Hoxha revealed that Moscow had sent a letter to the Albanians asking support for the anti-China campaign. "But even the parties who were asked to condemn the Chinese had no knowledge of the Soviet allegations until a few hours before the debate . . . Did Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders lack confidence in their own cause when they had recourse to such procedure...
...Pressure from Moscow continues," raged Hoxha, hinting that Khrushchev had even threatened to throw Albania out of the Communist bloc. "But Albania's adherence to or exclusion from the socialist camp does not depend on you [meaning Khrushchev]-but on the peoples of the U.S.S.R. and Albania...