The conference of the Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party (the Communist Party) has been the scene of the open confrontation of Russian and Chinese views in the last week. Kadar, who took over after the Russians suppressed the Hungarian Workers revolution in 1956 (although he had previously been a supportor of Nagy and a victim of Rakosi's repression), came down heavily on the side of the Russians in his opening speech. Humanity, he said, was indebted to the Soviet Union for having averted the imperialist provocation over Cuba. He expressed a wish for improved political relations with Yugoslavia, "despite differences on major problems of the international working-class movement." Going through the usual procedure, he criticised .mver Hoxha, the leader of the Albanian Commnist Party (read Chinese Communist Party) Tor "dogmatic, sectarian trends." Interestingly enough, he claimed that 95 per centof the people sentenced in Hungary for ‘crimes! committed during the 1956 revolution had been released.
The second day of the conference saw Russian and Chinese fraternal delegates make diametrically opposed speeches. Kuusinen, one of the oldest members of the Soviet leadership, violently attacked left wing critics of Soviet action who "rattled their sabres before world imperialism, but in practice they are incapable of giving the slightest support in the struggle against imperialist aggression" ~ a clear reference to the Chinese. He attacked the Albanians as "traitors" for criticising Khrushchov's Cuban compromise. \Ju Hsiu-chuan, the Chinese fraternal delegate, said that it was regrettable that “your congress has launched an open and unilateral attack against the Albanian Communist Party. This can only fill us with the most profound recrete We sincerely hope that we shall liquidate all the differences of view which separate us and that we shall reinforce our unity." He went on to say that "modern revisionists" represented by the ruling clique of Jugoslavia nust be struggled against most resolutely, and that the long term interests of the development of the Communist movement demanded such a struggle.
Press reports say that Wu Hsiu-chuan's speech was greeted in silence, and that the delegates of China, North Korea, Burma and Vietnam refrained from applauding when Albania was attacked. At time of writing the Conference was still continuing.