Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ended on an ominous note as the Rumanians, on orders from Ceausescu, walked out because they were criticized for not following the Soviet line of condemning Israel. An infinitely greater disruption came a few months later, when the forces of five Warsaw Pact nations, led by the Soviet Union, crashed into Czechoslovakia. Russia only outraged the majority of foreign Communists by stamping out a liberal experiment with which they sympathized and one that could have helped them win votes in the free world. At the same time, Russia once again ground under the tank treads one of Communism's dearest...
Foreign Communist reaction was an indication of both the Soviet Union's waning authority and the villainy of the deed. Twelve years earlier, in the much bloodier suppression of the Hungarian uprising, nearly every Communist Party in the world had supported the Soviet action. This time every major foreign party expressed disapproval, ranging from violent protest (Italy, Sweden, Yugoslavia) to distaste tempered by expediency (France and Cuba). Even Ru mania, a member of the Warsaw Pact, though it did not take part in the invasion, censured the action. Only in significant parties that depend on the Soviet dole (such...
...dingy building just across the street from the Kremlin, the Comintern ran a shadowy, tightly organized network of agents and conspirators who carried Moscow's orders to parties far and near. In those days, the first duty of a Communist anywhere in the world was to support the Soviet Union. Stalin said: "A revolutionary is one who without arguments, unconditionally, openly and honestly is ready to defend and strengthen the U.S.S.R...
...budget, helps the Indians financially, subsidizes the illegal party of West Germany and supports the Latin American parties. Danish Communist leaders get three free suits a year made in East Germany, and some parties get a rake-off on whatever trade or tourism their countries do with the Soviet Union...
Russian dissenters directed a courageous plea last week to the Moscow summit delegates. It was a petition seeking help in arresting the restalinization of the Soviet Union and restoring civil rights. Among the ten signers was former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, arrested last month for anti-Soviet activities; Grigorenko's name was signed by his wife. Other signers included Pyotr Yakir, who has spent 17 years in a concentration camp, and whose father, a general, was executed during Stalin's purges of the Red army, and Leonid Petrovsky, whose grandfather was once chairman of the region...