Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels who served in the French army in Indo-China are also said to have learned in the same school...
Warsaw went farthest with this thesis. Over a Warsaw dateline the New York Times recently headlined that the Suslov "faction" had challenged Khrushchev's authority in May, and that Red China's Mao Tse-tung had weighed in on Suslov's side. At the bottom of all of these reports was the conviction-assiduously spread by Nehru and Tito-that Khrushchev was a "liberal" who should be encouraged because he was trying to fight more illiberal forces at home. It was a theory that Khrushchev obviously had no objection to encouraging. But it is a significant fact...
Angered by persistent Peking attacks on his policy of "national Communism," Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito abandoned his former view of the Chinese Reds as a moderating influence on the Kremlin, last week implicitly accused Mao & Co. of being warmongers who boasted that "if 300 million [Chinese] were killed, 300 million would still remain." Gone, too, was Tito's old confidence in Khrushchev as the Kremlin's apostle of liberalism. The bitter new theory is that Khrushchev himself ordered the execution of Nagy and Maleter as a blow against Tito...
...master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave gingerly acceptance to the doctrine of "many roads to socialism." In time, China's Mao Tse-tung followed the Russian lead, proclaimed the wildly un-Marxist doctrine, "Let all flowers bloom...
Even in Red China, where the tiny measure of freedom proffered was hastily snatched back, Mao's government has found itself obliged, according to British intelligence, to "displace" more heretical senior officials in the past six months than in the preceding 8½ years of Communist rule...