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...program of economic and political reforms -- and with good reason. They realize that copying the Soviet policies would effectively repudiate their own. The men who control the six Warsaw Pact countries remember the last time such wrenching change took place in the Kremlin. In 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin, unrest swept Eastern Europe. Workers rioted in Poland, and a Hungarian rebellion had to be put down by Soviet troops. Notes one Polish journalist: "Everyone just holds his breath and waits for what will happen next...
Rumania remains fundamentally opposed to reform. More than two decades of rule by Nicolae Ceausescu, 69, has dismantled a once vigorous economy, created serious food shortages and established the most repressive police force in the Soviet bloc since Stalin. Ceausescu is adamantly against the reforms he sees in Moscow. Said he in a speech in January: "There is no way one can speak about socialist perfection and at the same time advocate so-called market socialism and free competition...
...demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...
...began with an instructive story. I will end with another. In 1966 the Soviet Union experienced its first great dissident event of the post-Stalin era -- the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, writers whose books were published in the West under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. Somebody had revealed their real names, and they were immediately arrested on orders of then KGB Chief Vladimir Semichastny. I was one of the Soviet writers who protested that trial...
...current Five-Year Plan. The conference would, in effect, be an extraordinary session of the quinquennial Soviet Party Congress, the most recent of which occurred last year. Such special meetings have been held before, but they are by no means regular events. The last one was called by Stalin...