COMMUNISTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY AFTER STALIN'S 70TH BIRTHDAY IN 1949, IT TOOK 
PRAVDA 22 MONTHS TO PRINT ALL THE NAMES OF HIS WELL-WISHERS 
. LAST WEEK, ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TYRANT'S DEATH, 
THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE MENTION BY PRESS OR RADIO OF 
THE MAN NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV ONCE FULSOMELY PRAISED AS " OUR GREAT 
LEADER, OUR FRIEND AND FATHER, THE GREATEST MAN OF OUR EPOCH 
. " IN ALL OF MOSCOW'S MILLIONS, ONLY A SINGLE ANONYMOUS 
SOUL DARED TO PAY RESPECTS WITH THREE RUBLES WORTH OF YELLOW 
MIMOSA ON STALIN'S BLACK MARBLE SLAB NEAR THE KREMLIN WALL INY 
ALBANIA, SEIZING ANY EXCUSE TO DEFY THE SOVIETS, WAS GUSHING STALIN'S 
PRAISE . ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD DICTATOR 
WERE HUNG WITH GARLANDS OF FLOWERS ; TIRANA NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED HIS 
PICTURE AND BABBLED THEIR " LOVE AND PROFOUND RESPECT FOR HIS 
TEACHINGS . " RED CHINA MIGHT ALSO HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO 
USE THE OCCASION TO GLORIFY STALIN'S MEMORY, BUT REMEMBERING THE DICTATOR'S 
OPEN DISTRUST OF HIS ASIAN COMRADES, PEKING CHOSE NOT TO BE 
HYPOCRITICAL . INSTEAD, MAO TSE-TUNG TOOK THE OCCASION TO LAUNCH HIS 
TOUGHEST, MOST STRIDENT BLAST AT MOSCOW SINCE THE SINO-SOVIET SQUABBLE BEGAN 
. A 60,000-WORD BROADSIDE IN PEKING'S THEORETICAL JOURNAL RED FLAG DECLARED 
: " CERTAIN PEOPLE, THOUGH CALLING THEMSELVES MARXIST-LENINISTS, ARE IN FACT 
MUDDLEHEADED ; THEY TALK DRIVEL . . . THEY EITHER MAKE 
ENDLESS CONCESSIONS TO THE ENEMY AND THUS COMMIT THE ERROR OF 
CAPITULATIONISM, OR ACT RECKLESSLY AND THUS COMMIT THE ERROR OF ADVENTURISM 
. " PEKING ADDED CONTEMPTUOUSLY THAT COMMUNISTS LIKE RUSSIA'S KHRUSHCHEV, ITALY'S 
TOGLIATTI AND FRANCE'S THOREZ, WHO ADVOCATED " PEACEFUL " REVOLUTION IN 
THE WEST, WERE GUILTY OF " PARLIAMENTARY CRETINISM . " RED 
CHINA'S NEW TONE MADE THE SQUABBLE FOR SUPREMACY IN THE COMMUNIST 
WORLD SOUND ALL BUT IRRECONCILABLE . " IF IT IS A 
CASE OF MASTERS WIELDING CLUBS OVER THE HEADS OF SERVANTS, CALLING 
FOR UNITY, THEN WHAT IS ACTUALLY MEANT IS A SPLIT, " 
DECLARED RED FLAG . SWITCHING TO ANOTHER METAPHOR, PEKING INTONED OMINOUSLY 
THAT " NOW THERE ARE TWO WATCHES " BY WHICH COMMUNISTS 
CAN TELL THE TIME . " WHICH IS TO BE THE 
MASTER WATCH ? " MOSCOW DID NOT SHOUT BACK LAST WEEK 
; BUT IT COULD NOT LONG REMAIN SILENT, LEST KHRUSHCHEV APPEAR 
TO BE THE " COWARD " THAT MAO NOW CALLED HIM 
. NOW THAT THE CHINESE REDS HAVE NAILED THEIR THESES TO 
THE KREMLIN WALL, SOME MEN IN MOSCOW WOULD BE THINKING OF 
EXCOMMUNICATION . STALIN'S POSTHUMOUS EXCOMMUNICATION TOOK ONLY THREE YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH, 
AND ALREADY THE SINO-SOVIET QUARREL HAS RAGES FOR LONGER THAN THAT 
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