KHRUSHCHEV'S TROJAN HORSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100060011-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 5, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved Fase 2000/09/08: CIA-RDP78-4R000100060011-3
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hrushch,ey's? Troj 5n" Hors
Premier Khrushchev's speech in Sofia dispels any
doubt that may, have existed about his personal posi-
tion in the dispute with Yugoslavia. In this speech
he virtually accepted the entire Chinese indictment
against Belgrade, including even the thesis that the
1948 Comminform resolution expelling the Yugo-
Slavs was correct.
The Soviet Premier turned to Homer for a figure
of speech to aid his anti-'Yugoslav campaign. Re-
visionism among Communists, he declared,. is 'like,
the Trojan Horse with which the Greeks conquered
Troy. The implication is plain: Just as the Trojans
'should have destroyed' the wooden horse which
brought their downfall, so moderx communism must
destroy the revisionists, beginning with the Yugo-
slavs. This is a jarring theme indeed in this era
of Soviet propaganda about "peaceful coexistence."
.The West created neither modern, Yugoslavia nor
modern revisionism. Neither was it the West .which
prompted Khrushchev to journey to Belgrade in
1955 to ask humbly for the Yugoslav peoples', for-
giveness of the Soviet crimes committed against
them. True, the West, notably the United States,
has aided Yugoslavia in recent years and much
is being, made of this by Khrushchev, and others,
But is not the United States now helping Poland?
Did not the United' States supply over $11,000,000,-
000 worth of essential goods to the Soviet Union
during World War ?II, 'aid for' which no payment
has ever been received? Has Khrushchev forgotten
the period in 1945 and 1946 when as Communist'
boss of the Ukraine he gratefully received American
and other Western aid supplied through UNRRA?
But if the Trojan Horse analogy is nonsense, the
evident Communist fear of independent .thinking
and of questioning of old dogmas is quite clear.
The Soviet camp has never dared let its people
know accurately what the Yugoslavs actually are
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