Word: khrushchevism
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...Timekeepers. The real trouble began when Gronchi and Pella, in fashionable Italian style, arrived 15 minutes late for a business session with Khrushchev and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, found the Russians scowling heavily at their watches. When Gronchi suggested that the summit meeting should take up reunification of Germany through free elections, Khrushchev broke in to growl that his utmost concession on Germany would be to guarantee Berlin as a "free city" once the West withdrew its troops. Things were not helped even when Gronchi presented Khrushchev with a 16th century bust of Marcus Aurelius...
That evening, at a big Italian embassy reception, Khrushchev made it clear that he had abandoned all hope of capitalizing on Gronchi's vague visions of a more "flexible" Italian foreign policy. In a long, menacing toast, Khrushchev bluntly warned that Russia would not relax its hold over Communist East Germany ("The situation created by World War II cannot be changed without a war"); he was not interested in West German views ("We cannot accept conditions from men who were beaten at Stalingrad"), then launched into a series of unfavorable comparisons between Italy and Russia...
...soldiers have been in Italy as allies." he said. "Yours tried to come to our country as enemies.* That we can never forget." Cooling down, Khrushchev talked of how in 42 years Russia has become "the first country in the world of culture. We have no poor, no unemployed. In capitalism, the smartest man is the one with the most dollars. Here he is the one with the most talents. Think it over, Mr. President, and join the Communist Party...
Money & the Moon. Icily, Gronchi retorted: "I would like to present Premier Khrushchev with a good wish. Maybe one day, touched by divine grace, he will enter the Christian Democratic Party." Khrushchev (angrily): Which party gives most to the people? Our flag has reached the moon. And you? What have you done...
...Khrushchev (contemptuously): We do not sell ideas. Ideas are not salami...