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When Joseph Stalin was running things, the Kremlin had only to bark a command and heels clicked throughout the Communist world. Now the heels are more likely to drag. Nowhere was the fraying discipline of once-monolithic world Communism more clearly illustrated last week than in a Pravda editorial that all Communists had been awaiting for months...
...invitation, Khrushchev was careful to allay fears; indeed, the tone of the Pravda editorial was almost wheedling. It solemnly endorsed the "unity through diversity" that Gheorghiu-Dej has demanded, and swore that the purpose of the meeting was not to "excommunicate" anybody. Where earlier this year, Moscow had boasted that "nearly all" parties were in favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions...
...possible that enough such gestures might embarrass the Soviet government into easing up on the Jews. Recently, after a galaxy of European intellectuals and Communist parties in France, Britain and the U.S. made strong, astonished protests, Pravda announced that the Party's Ideological Commission had criticized Judaism Without Embellishment for its serious mistakes and admitted that it "may insult the feelings of believers." Last week, Aleksei Adzhubei, the editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, announced that the book had been banned and all copies destroyed...
From Hungary, in the midst of a ten-day visit, Khrushchev 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...
...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 the Pope." Asked Suslov: "Is it not the restoration of these inhuman customs that the Chinese leaders...