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Listen, the Wind. Simply by appearing in person at the East German Party Congress, Khrushchev demonstrated his support for East Germany's Stalinist chief, goateed Walter Ulbricht. "The wind isn't blowing into your face but Adenauer's." he told party activists. "Don't worry, they'll come yet and knock on your door and say, we're from Bonn and would like to negotiate." He drove into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave...
Inside Hungary, they have been silent ever since. Some were done to death. On the Soviet execution list (TIME, June 30), alongside Imre Nagy, stood the name of Miklos Gimes, ex-Stalinist journalist who became one of Hungary's leading anti-Reds. Countless others are in prison, notably Hungary's top novelist, Tibor Dery, 64; his latest book, Niki, the Story of a Dog, which is really a quiet indictment of the police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent...
...recent months informed sources in Belgrade and Warsaw have been proclaiming the existence of a "Stalinist" challenge to Khrushchev, allegedly headed by Theoretician Mikhail Suslov. Suslov, a grim-lipped fellow adept at writing manifestoes, may indeed be swimming in trouble instead of in the Black Sea, where Khrushchev said he was. But the evidence that he is the kind of man, or has the party strength, to offer an effective power challenge to Khrushchev is thin indeed...
...Russians, who set great store by anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave...
...glance at Russian public opinion and attitudes was provided by Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, who told the audience that "many Soviet citizens have been profoundly alienated from the regime" by the Stalinist terror and the miserably depressed standard of living...