Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KREMLIN Friend in Need One of the first acts of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin's death was to fly to Red China. Hints dropped subsequently by Khrushchev indicated that Stalin's interference in China's affairs-particularly in the Korean war-had all but brought Sino-Soviet relations to the breaking point. With soft words and smooth promises Khrushchev soothed Chinese feelings. Last week the favor was returned. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was in Moscow to repair with soft words and smooth threats the widening rifts in the Soviet Union...
...giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
Great Gathering. The Kremlin leaders could not, of course, re-establish Stalinism, for the simple reason that there was no Stalin, or any man his equal extant, and his successors had, for their own safety, partially dismantled the policy system which had concentrated so much power in the old dictator's hands. But collectively they could make Stalinist noises, which could be read as a rebuke to Tito, and might be depended upon to strike fear in the breasts of restless satellite Communist leaders...
...bosses had become convinced that further intramural quarreling is a luxury that the badly rent Communist world cannot afford. Whatever their motives, their attack came as a shattering surprise to Belgrade, where Tito had been counting on China as a major ally in his fight for "independent Communism." The Kremlin's hard-line Politburocrats have gathered pledges of support from all the satellites except Poland, and from the big Communist Parties of France and Italy, leaving Yugoslavia and Poland almost isolated in insisting on "separate ways to socialism." Nervously, Tito's henchmen considered the possibility that Soviet isolation...
...government in the past have carefully described Kremlin actions as "interventions" rather than "aggression...