Word: komekon
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...KOMEKON, Eastern Europe today has economic union, while Western Europe still debates it. The U.N. last month reported with surprise that Eastern Europe's trade, "including the U.S.S.R., appeared to have increased tenfold since 1938," while Western Europe's was up only...
Four years ago the Communists resolved to turn their seven East European satellites from what was once Europe's granary into Russia's arsenal. This was the Molotov Plan, to counter the Marshall Plan, and it got a bureaucratic name: KOMEKON.† The goal was gargantuan: to create a new industrial empire, 90 million strong. The cost, in hardship, did not matter...
...KOMEKON's progress is disturbingly impressive, but the strain, the sacrifice, the sabotage and the suffering is also immense -and sizable enough for the Communists themselves to acknowledge. From their own propaganda broadcasts, from hour after monotonous hour of "selfcriticism" at the Czech purge trials, from intelligence studies of East Europe's censored, servile press last week, came these portents of KOMEKON's troubles...
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