Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Europe's firmness against the Reds. Much of Western Europe's postwar order is based on anti-Communism as an article of faith: the conviction that the Communists are a treacherous, armed and somehow non-European enemy. That conviction began to falter with the changeover from Stalin, the "oriental despot," to Khrushchev, the table-thumping but jolly politician-and with the accompanying softening of Communist tyranny in Russia and the satellites. The test ban and what may follow will continue this process of persuading European voters that Communists-Moscow, if not Peking variety-can be lived with...
...optimism was nourished by a dazzling display of Soviet amiability (see THE WORLD). Even so seasoned a veteran of diplomatic dealings with the Russians as the U.S.'s Special Envoy W. Averell Harriman was impressed with the signs of thaw. And Harriman, having served as ambassador to Stalin's Russia from 1943 to 1946 and on missions to Moscow on other occasions, surely knows well the wisdom of Demosthenes' counsel...
...when a man went to his job and did not know whether he would see his wife and children again?" Dropping his voice to a dramatic whisper, Khrushchev said that letters to him from all over the country expressed gratitude for ending the Stalinist terror. Then he added: "If Stalin had died ten years earlier, it would have been even better...
...time Nikita showed up in Peking in 1959, fresh from his tour of the U.S. and the meeting with Ike at Camp David, he was barely on speaking terms with his hosts. The airport was decorated with huge posters of Stalin; on the way to town, Khrushchev and Mao began an argument that lasted for the next four days. When the Soviet ruler left, not even the niceties of a formal communique were observed...
...began an all-out Chinese offensive designed to topple Khrushchev from power. It was also the start of an endless argument about whether authority for Moscow's "peaceful coexistence" or Peking's "inevitability of war" could be found in the sacred Lenin texts. Actually Lenin, and even Stalin, had argued both ways at various times, depending on conditions-and Moscow pointed out that conditions were certainly different in the nuclear age. When Mao's men carried the attack into a meeting of world Communist leaders in Bucharest in June, Khrushchev was incensed. "One cannot mechanically repeat what...