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...Soviets have been demanding from Yugoslavia overflight rights for their warplanes and bunkering privileges for Russian warships at Yugoslavia's Adriatic ports. In an accompanying orchestration of political threats, Soviet officials privately warned that Yugoslavia's regional rivalries and its decentralization program were endangering the primacy of Communism in the country...
That sounded like a pretext for Soviet intervention under the Brezhnev doctrine, which proclaims that the Soviet Union has the right to protect Communism in other countries by whatever means necessary...
...speech to 2,000 workers in an electronics plant outside Belgrade, Brezhnev lauded the right of each country to build its own form of Communism. Then he turned around and implied that the Soviets reject the Yugoslav system of self-management, which grants considerable local initiative and democracy in contrast to the rigid, centrally controlled Soviet setup...
...tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...
...immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev...