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Like Dante's Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
...three months Gomulka, the man on a tightrope, had delayed calling the ninth plenum of the party's 80-man Central Committee while he attempted to discipline his highly vocal anti-Stalinist left supporters, who are demanding increasing democratization and secretly hope for a breakthrough to a Western European type of socialism. Last week, under increasing pressure from the Stalinist right, Gomulka suddenly called the Central Committee together...
...monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best to sell the Stalinist brand of anti-Catholic Catholicism. But most of the laity and all of the hierarchy stood firm. Today Pax still controls much of its commercial empire and is still in charge of Caritas, the Catholic welfare organization over which the church seeks direct control. But by and large Pax is utterly discredited...
When Poland's Stalinist government fell in October 1956 and Wladyslaw Gomulka took power, he lost no time in sending representatives to the cardinal to discuss the conditions of his return. Now Wyszynski was in a position to dictate the terms on which he would accept his freedom, for Gomulka needed Wyszynski's tremendous personal authority to keep Poland's anti-Red fever under control. The cardinal's bargaining power was nothing less than the Soviet army that might roll over Poland if things went out of control...
Most of the political prisoners released were accused of wartime treason and collaborating with the Germans, Berman was told. These steps are all part of the general Soviet program of liberalizing in some degree the harsh Stalinist penal system...