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...manifesto also attacked corruption and greed in the government of Party Chief Erich Honecker. "These Politburo-crats are sick with conceit," the document declared. "No ruling class in Germany has ever sponged on others the way the two dozen ruling Communist families have, using our country like a self-service store." Accused of living in "golden ghettos," the leaders were said to have "enriched themselves shamelessly in special shops and by privately ordering goods from the West." The worst offender was Honecker himself, who, the manifesto charged, had "stuffed the homes of his relatives from cellar to roof with...
Alarmed by broadcast stories about the manifesto on West German TV, which is watched by 80% of East Germans, Honecker called a Politburo meeting to deal with the crisis. The party leadership closed Der Spiegel's East Berlin bureau, the first such Communist action since East and West Germany agreed to exchange journalists in 1972. A wide-scale press campaign in the East tried to discredit the manifesto as a "malicious concoction" of West German intelligence. Initially some Communist-propaganda experts in Bonn had suspected the document's authenticity. Now, however, there is agreement that the manifesto...
...time 336 Soviet heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov, 69, made the obligatory bow to "the struggle for peace, détente and disarmament," then launched into vigorous affirmation of Moscow's determination "to further strengthen our armed capabilities" so that no potential foe "will risk violating our peaceful lives...
...great October Socialist Revolution."* Listening to Brezhnev's grandiloquence was an audience that included Socialist and Communist leaders from all over the world who had gathered in Moscow to do homage to the Revolution. The capital's streets were festooned with red banners-posters of the Politburo stared out at the public everywhere' 3 end the celebration, a Soviet armed-forces parade this week will bristle through Red Square, past the mausoleum where Lennon - the now deified founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - rests in his glass case...
revolution, bureaucracy and Russian tradition. Revolution, once but briefly, was everything; years ago tradition and bureaucracy defeated it. The Revolution has ended by instituting a new form of authoritarian state, quite reactionary, now ruled by a gerontocracy (average age of Politburo members...