For Communist Partygoers this has been a busy winter on the social circuit. Since November, the comrades have held party congresses in Sofia and Budapest, Prague and Rome. This week the current season winds up in East Berlin with the most crucial meeting of them all, to be attended by none other than Party Favorite Nikita Khrushchev.
Abruptly deciding to leave Moscow by train six days early, Khrushchev dropped in en route to see Poland's Red boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was so surprised by the visit that he didn't even have time to deck Warsaw's streets with welcome banners. But...
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