Following severe open criticism from the Kremlin-controlled Cominform in January 1950, Nosaka personally was forced to eat humble pie for the “lovable JCP” policy he had promoted, and the party was thrown into turmoil. On May 18, the central committee issued (with Politburo approval) a militant fifty-two page “thesis” that hostile chroniclers aptly characterized as constituting “the last rites for the ‘lovable Communist Party.’” For the Communists and radicals, the aftermath of these developments was swift and disastrous.
