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...rewriting of party history was still to come in the satellites. As one of the first acts of revision, the Hungarian Communist Eugene Varga last week wrote a laudatory article for Pravda on Bela Kun, the famous Hungarian revolutionary who ran a Soviet in Budapest for 133 bloody days in 1919. Varga did not mention that after he himself denounced Bela Kun as a "Trotskyite wrecker," the old revolutionary disappeared in Russia, never to be heard from again...
...that Moscow "would like to have relations with Pakistan no less friendly than those with India" and might even be willing to give it some economic aid. It was a pity, he added, that Pakistan's partnership in the Baghdad pact had brought it "to difficult internal straits." Pravda made similar overtures to Turkey, Pakistan's partner in the Baghdad pact...
Seven Lines in Pravda. But the big tip-off that all was not well with Kruglov came recently with the report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
...labyrinthine politics of Soviet power, control of the police apparatus is vital. Khrushchev and his party cadres have apparently gained one more sector on the eve of this week's 20th Party Congress. But they still advance carefully. The Pravda announcement referred to Kruglov as "comrade," indicating that he was not, so far, an "enemy of the people." All five previous bosses of Russia's secret police either died at their jobs or were executed shortly after being removed...
Khrushchev's propaganda push for the Virgin Land has made it a favorite front-page subject in Pravda, a heroic subject for Soviet moviemakers, and the inspiration for at least two Moscow plays. But since Russian playwrights have also been instructed to get more credible realism into their turgid propaganda drama, the exhortations have been marked by some surprising candor...