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...pocket-Stalinist regime has done little for Albania's limp economy. The few paved roads and sizable buildings are relics of the Italian occupation. There are no private cars or buses; Albanians travel from village to village by donkey or in open trucks. The only railroad is scarcely 70 miles long, and the main seaport at Durres can unload only one ship at a time...
...after Stalin, of natural causes (pneumonia and pleurisy, contracted at Stalin's funeral). From his modernistic mausoleum in suburban Prague's Vitkov Hill, where he lay in public view, Gottwald was moved to a national memorial park and placed underground. Novotny himself used to be a notorious Stalinist, but in an ironic and macabre turnabout managed to blame most of his party's past Stalinist errors on former Party Boss Rudolf Slansky, who was hanged in 1952. Slansky, went the story, had misled Gottwald into the Stalinist personality cult, but despite "shortcomings and mistakes" he was still...
...Kremlin equivalent of a third-class funeral, the body was buried behind the Mausoleum in a cemetery reserved for faintly dubious or dimly famous Red heroes-the folksy ex-President of Russia, Mikhail Kalinin, the ardent Stalinist Andrei Zhdanov, the founder of the secret police. Felix Dzerzhinsky, and U.S. Comrade John Reed. Capping the whole macabre comedy, a vase with twelve white chrysanthemums was placed on the new grave of the man who had just been certified over and over again as a mass murderer...
...been given a respectable sinecure as Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. During the past year, Molotov had become a familiar Viennese sight as he strolled through the Belvedere Gardens or sipped coffee at cafes. But instead of minding his pleasant business, the unrepentant Stalinist a few weeks ago dispatched a circular letter to all 133 members of the Soviet Party's Central Committee, supporting the militant Chinese line. "Without serious conflict, without war, advance toward Communism is impossible," Molotov wrote...
...Party, biggest in the West, has shrunk from a peak of 2,500,000 to 1,700,000 last year. Economically, Free Europe is in an unprecedented boom and moving toward political unity-the result of a remarkable alliance between capitalism and democratic socialism. All of this confounds Leninist-Stalinist dogma, which in 1952 predicted that the industrially advanced nations would destroy themselves in a shooting war over foreign markets. The combined industrial potential of Western Europe, the U.S. and Britain will for an indefinite period far outweigh the potential of the Red bloc...