Word: khrushchevism
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Instead, Hoxha went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland...
Things came to a head at a meeting of satellite leaders in Moscow last winter. Hoxha called Khrushchev a "revisionist," one of the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon, since it means not going by the book. An enraged Khrushchev shouted back: "Comrade Hoxha, you have poured a bucket of dung on me, and you will have to wash...
...frowned on for not voting, some 17,650,000 voters out of a possible 18,615,185 showed up at the polls last week and voted overwhelmingly for Comrade Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist followers. Gomulka himself, who still lives on the reputation of having stood up to Khrushchev in 1956's October, gathered a record 99.54% of the votes in his Warsaw district...
...host was in an ebullient vacation mood. Nikita Khrushchev met his guests, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lippmann, at the gate of his Black Sea villa, and for the next eight hours he filled them with food and wine, battered them with talk and badminton (Khrushchev and a lady press aide v. the Lippmanns). By then, the 71-year-old columnist was bushed: "We insisted on leaving in order to go to bed." He flew off to record his second private audience in three years with the Soviet Premier.* Between the wine and badminton, Lippmann's ear had caught enough...
Almost at once, Host Khrushchev put his guests at ease by observing that the threat of war had lessened since they last met. "The two main forces in the world, the capitalist and the Socialist," said Khrushchev, "have concluded that it was useless to 'test' one another by military means." But as usual, the soft words surrounded a sharp dig at the U.S.: Khrushchev hastened to inform his guests that growing Soviet might has destroyed the Western appetite...