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...Communist leaders were willing to make concessions abroad in order to be free to work out their quarrels in peace at home. First Khrushchev and Mikoyan went to Red China to insure Mao's friendship with promises of new industrial supplies. Then they ate crow at the lean table of the renegade Tito, where Nikita stayed drunk most of the time. After that came the parley at the summit, which they bought into cheaply by freeing Austria. But for all the sweet talk at Geneva, the Russians were unwilling (or felt no need) to make any real...
...attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies...
Leaked to the world press and foreign diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly the campaign was directed against the dead Stalin, and busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine...
...Communist Parties ever belonged to the Cominform. From a shabby headquarters in Bucharest it waged an increasingly desultory paper war against Tito. When Stalin's successors finally denounced Stalin himself, the Cominform was doomed. Last week in Moscow, largely as a gesture to Tito, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan announced its end, and professed to find the whole thing unimportant. "They put out a paper," said Mikoyan, "I think." Tito congratulated Russia's new bosses on their "brave and bold" course, but just in case anyone really thought the end of the Cominform meant the beginning...
Toasting Nehru as "the outstanding statesman of our epoch," Mikoyan said: "Certain aggressive circles have as their slogan, 'Let us arm,' but we say, 'Let us trade.' The steel mill we are building for you is an example of peaceful competition with the Western countries. Let our Indian friends be the judges...