KHRUSHCHEV’S LIES MUST BE ANSWERED
1958The NewsletterMichael Banda Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
THE campaign against the Yugoslav Communist Party has assumed a sinister aspect with Khrushchev’s furious outburst at the Sofia congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Khrushchev—no mincer of words—demanded_ obsequious loyalty in place of critical independence and repeated his threats against ALL dissident élements in the Stalinist world.
In this sense the Sofia speech denotes a sharpening attack against the working class in eastern Europe and a more conciliatory foreign policy towards imperialism. This latter aspect of Soviet policy is confirmed by the silence on de Gaulle and the overtures made to the U.S. imperialists in Khrushchev's letter to Eisenhower. :
Khrushchev’s technique was not much cruder than the Chinese. He attacked the Yugoslav’s as ‘revisionists’ and then proceeded to define revisionism as a ‘modern Trojan horse’ of the imperialist camp and revisionists as people who desire ‘the - preservation or the restoration of capitalism’.
One example of this ‘revisionism’ given by Khrushchev is enough to reveal the hollowness of the argument.
‘The Yugoslav leaders did particularly great harm to the cause of socialism by their public pronouncements and their * actions during the Hungarian events.
‘During the counter-revolitionary putsch in Budapest, the Yugoslav. Embassy, in effect; became-a centre for those who had started the struggle against the people’s democratic