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...Western school of thought, is the best man our side has in Russia. For all his bullheadedness and ugly threats, it is said, Khrushchev should be helped to stay in power, since his downfall might bring a far worse man to the top-presumably an adherent of the militant Stalinist or Chinese line. Soviet diplomats, seeking concessions abroad, subtly encourage this view, and Yugoslavia's Tito has been plugging it. Lately, it has found new and prominent exponents in the West. Last week Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky, a veteran antiCommunist, startled readers with the strident prediction that "if Khrushchev...
...theory that enough agitprop and malice can stop man's thoughts and instincts and create a horde of obedient automatons. On the contrary, wrote Salisbury, a large section of Russia's youth is rebellious and alive with foreign ideas in the wake of the long years of Stalinist repression. Salisbury does not ignore the millions of sober Communist youngsters who study hard in their schools and universities, or work enthusiastically in factories. But more importantly, said Salisbury, there is rising a "lost generation . . . alienated from Soviet goals and strongly oriented toward anything Western-from a new hairdo...
Most startling was Salisbury's conclusion that some of the men around Khrushchev "are liberal not only in contrast with Stalinist authoritarianism, but, by and large, in the Western sense of liberalism as well . . . They believe in a rule of law, of justice, as it is known in the West, and in freedom of the individual within socially recognized bounds . . ." To many Western experts, this seemed .preposterously wishful thinking. Says a Munich-based expert: "There are no liberals and no neo-Stalinists-only hard-line and soft-line men in the ideological war with the rest of the world...
...extreme are a minority of diehard Stalinists, longing for the early postwar years when Communist partisans expectantly scrawled signs, "Ha da veni' Baffone"-Big Mustache (Stalin) is coming. They blame Khrushchev's coexistence politics for shattering the unity of the Soviet bloc. Togliatti's support of Khrushchev, says Senior Stalinist Mauro Scoccimarro, 66, has "created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted...
...some, Amendola is not a liberalizer but merely an opportunist who seeks to oust Togliatti. "He wants neither a Stalinist nor an anti-Stalinist party." says one critic. "He wants a nice, homemade Communism that knows how to play the game in the Italian manner-that is, with a card up its sleeve...