Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nose for Corpses. Khrushchev displayed the same poet-and-peasant touch in dealing with Mao Tse-tung's latest assault on Moscow's "revision ism." The Chinese, said Nikita, turning ever more violent, are "complete idiots" in espousing Stalinism. "There is a tradition to carry a corpse feet first out of the house so that it will not return. We carried Stalin out this way, and nobody will ever bring him back to us." The Chinese may "like the smell of corpses," he continued, but neither Russia nor the Western powers had the nose for it. "When...
...this the Soviet leader took-or was made to take-in the glimmering hope that a final split with China could yet be avoided. Then, last week, Mao called Khrushchev "the greatest capitulationist in history" and summoned Communists everywhere to "repudiate and liquidate" Russia's leader. With that, world Communism ripped brutally and publicly apart...
...grimly ordered into print the "resolute counterattack" he had threatened last September. Next day seven pages of Pravda were devoted to a scalding speech of excommunication prepared privately seven weeks ago by Soviet Ideologist Mikhail Suslov for this very contingency. Suslov, who can be as foulmouthed a Marxist as Mao, damned the Chinese for "apostasy," "petty-bourgeois nationalism," "neo-Trotskyist deviation" and "hysterical" pronouncements that aligned Peking's leadership "with the most aggressive circles of imperialism...
...doubt, sneered Suslov, Mao's tantrum had not been triggered by ideological differences at all but simply by resentment at the Soviet refusal to help China build an Abomb. Suslov even gave Mao bad Marx for putting violent worldwide revolution ahead of feeding and clothing his own people. "Neither Marx nor Lenin," he declared with biting sarcasm, "anywhere even remotely hinted that the rock-bottom task of so cialist construction may be realized by the methods of leaps and cavalry charges [or by] ignoring the tasks of improving the living standards of the people...
...served Stalin long before Khrushchev came to the fore, drove home his attack by disclosing that Old Stalinists Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich, Sinophiles all, had been ousted secretly from the Communist Party in 1961. Suslov declared that the "antiparty" trio subscribed to the selfsame heresies as Mao. He singled out Molotov-who had variously been Soviet Premier (in 1930) and first editor of Pravda (1912)-for particular vituperation. Harking back to the murderous Soviet purges of the 1930s, Suslov accused Molotov of attempting to surpass Stalin's brutality-he "tried to be a better Catholic than...