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...retire to their nicely furnished rooms in the belief that things had been patched up. But back in Bucharest, Ceausescu decided not to let matters rest there, demanded that the entire meeting vote an apology to Rumania. When the apology was not forthcoming, Niculescu-Mizil denounced Russia's "Stalinist tactics." Then the Rumanians walked out and within a few hours were bound for Bucharest...
Aging & Suspicious. What makes Poland's intellectuals so angry is that it was in Poland, after the enlightened, anti-Stalinist regime of Gomulka took power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw's stage bloomed with avant-garde theater-the existentialism of Sartre, the absurdism of Beckett and a home-grown brand of vicious gallows humor. Recently, however, while an aging and suspicious government tolerates less free discussion at home, the Poles have watched in frustration while non conformity flourishes among...
...courtroom. "A legally conducted and organized court," they said, "need not fear the glare of publicity, but should actually welcome it." Two brothers, Biologist Yuri Vakhtin and Writer Boris Vakhtin, denounced the trial's "abnormal atmosphere" and "court violations." Noting that their father had been killed in a Stalinist purge in the 1930s, they said that they could not accept a return to that "terrible time of lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took the stand at the trial, complained in a letter about Komsomolskaya Pravda's distortions of his testimony. Writer Ginzburg...
Toughness & Arrogance. The plan to kill Park was Premier Kim's own idea, as in all likelihood was the order to seize the Pueblo. A Stalinist who has kept North Korea in a state of permanent purge, Kim has acted In recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors...
...controlling Europe's bread basket and the Black Sea oil wells. After the battle, the Soviet armies paused only a few times before they had driven the Germans back to Germany. The victory also restored much respectability to a Communist movement tarnished in the 1930s by the Stalinist purges and the cynical Hitler-Stalin pact; the party signed up many new believers who mistakenly credited Communism-and not simply patriotism-for inspiring the Russian victory at Stalingrad...