Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either side of the great split that now divides the Communist world, the disputants exalt Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as their patron and prophet. Lenin looks on as, in his name, Nikita Khrushchev denounces the Chinese as dogmatists, fools, adventurers and warmongers. And Lenin looks on as, in his name, Mao Tse-tung denounces the Russians as revisionists, traitors, bourgeois cowards and capitulationists...
...condemn China. Instead of simply calling such a meeting and dictating the resolutions, Khrushchev had to plead and argue with foreign parties, including those from his own satellites. The Italians, among others, did not even send a delegation to Moscow. The rest plainly urged restraint, not because they like Mao any better than Khrushchev does, but because they are afraid of the consequences of widening the split even further. For one thing, the satellites-cherishing their new, limited but heady independence-do not particularly want to give Moscow a chance once again to play the supreme arbiter of the Communist...
...moment at least, it seemed that Khrushchev was not pushing for the ultimate break; he remarked that Moscow would "always leave an opportunity for rapprochement and understanding." From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
Despairing Squeal. As only he can do it, Khrushchev last week once again defined the quarrel. For the first time in an attack on the Chinese, he mentioned Mao Tse-tung by name, and for the first time he publicly used the word "split," which, he said, "could no longer be hushed up." Gleefully, he imitated the high-pitched Chinese speech when he talked about their "seemingly revolutionary squeals, which are really squeals of despair." He called them Trotskyites, and hinting at the fate that lies ahead for Mao, Khrushchev shouted: "Where is Trotsky now? Rotting...
...merely envious of Russian prosperity-but this prosperity is necessary to the revolutionary cause, he added virtuously, for it inspires workers everywhere. Moreover, if the Chinese have economic problems, then they have only their own "reckless experiments" to blame. Obviously still smarting at not being consulted, Khrushchev recalled how Mao Tse-tung in 1958 informed him of his disastrous plans to set up agricultural communes. "He was not asking me," said Khrushchev, "he was telling me. So I said, 'It is your business. You try it. But we tried it long ago and failed...