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...leading Communist candidates showed how the Poles were thinking. In Warsaw's First District, for example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal...
...prices went up." Listening coldly to candidates' ingratiating speeches, voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction as a "bunch of Jews." From their viewpoint, an anti-Communist demonstration at the polls would constitute a massive nonconfidence vote in Gomulka, and justify a Stalinist revival...
...factors that gave the Hungarian revolution its first success was the low morale of the hated AVH, the state security police. All the Kremlin talk of coexistence, and Russia's downgrading of Stalinist police methods, had made the AVH feel that they might be sold out at any time by their Moscow bosses. Now a new Hungarian security-police force, composed of old AVH stalwarts, diehard Communists and trade-union toughies, to the number of 10,000, has been formed, and every effort is being made to make them feel that not only do they have the backing...
...ladder since his demotion two years ago. The report has a plausible sound: a prearranged close testing of strength would be a finely calculated hint to the ebullient Nikita to mend his ways, but fast. It would explain the recent reversal of the Khrushchev line, the rewarming of Stalinist slogans for the benefit of Old Guard Communists such as Molotov, and the coolness towards Tito. It would also account for Khrushchev's belated dash down to Budapest (in the pattern of his onetime troubleshooting swings through the Ukraine) and the great forgathering in Moscow last week of the ever...
...Supreme Soviet is soon to take place. In the Communist equivalent of a "State of the Union" message to it, Khrushchev & Co. have much to explain, if only for the comfort of their own vast bureaucracy. To counter rumors that deep splits were threatening in parts of the old Stalinist empire, friendly delegations from China, East Germany and other Communist countries were already gathering in Moscow. In the praises of Stalin being sung by these delegations, however, there was a dichotomy that would not have been present in Stalin...