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...Secretary was inexplicably missing from the round of Moscow parties, but at week's end he turned up at a reception for a delegation of East German Communists. Glass in hand, Khrushchev explained that he had been down to Budapest fighting off the "imperialists" and establishing a strong Stalinist line...
...establish Stalinism, for the simple reason that there was no Stalin, or any man his equal extant, and his successors had, for their own safety, partially dismantled the policy system which had concentrated so much power in the old dictator's hands. But collectively they could make Stalinist noises, which could be read as a rebuke to Tito, and might be depended upon to strike fear in the breasts of restless satellite Communist leaders...
...Communists did not hesitate to make a charge that no Russian leader currently dares to make in public. "In our opinion," said the Central Committee, "Stalin's mistakes take second place to his achievements . . . [Tito] took up a wrong attitude when he set up so-called Stalinism, the Stalinist course and Stalinist elements as objects of attack . . . This can only lead to a split in the Communist movement...
...Frenchmen in any job they were given, that if they accepted work at all, they would lose their refugee status and any chance of moving to another job in another country, that all the young men would be drafted into the Foreign Legion, and even that France was a Stalinist country and that they were destined for concentration camps. Three weeks ago, under pressure of such rumors, 300 Hungarians poured out of a refugee camp at Valdahon and made a wild scramble for the Swiss border 30 miles away, returned only when the Swiss refused to admit them...
This was the miners' answer to a Presidential Council decree re-establishing the old Stalinist internment system, by which the police may arrest and hold without trial "persons whose activity or behavior endangers public order." The decree was accompanied by a burst of government publicity defending the new police force and denying that it was identified with the old AVH or would use "former criminal methods...