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With a bumper crop almost in, Nikita Khrushchev's successors, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, could afford the gesture. "Well," said one Russian woman, "I guess this shows that -what's his name?-oh yes, Kosygin -is all right." The Explainers. Khrushchev's sudden ouster has seemingly stirred little emotion among the Russian people. But shock and indignation have mounted in Communist parties abroad, and the task of soothing the foreign comrades left Russia's new B. & K. team red-eyed with fatigue. Into Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish...
Despite a glittering new job offer-deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands-Aleksei decided to hang around. After all, Wife Rada still had her job as an editor of a Moscow scientific journal...
...between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around the satellite circuit asks: "What did Aleksei Adzhubei learn when his father-in-law lost his job?" Answer: "That he married for love...
...bosses as "competent and unpretentious." So far, at least, they have plenty to be unpretentious about. The start of their rule was not auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless. Visibly ruffled, Brezhnev stared down on them and muttered: "K chortu." That meant...
...provocative attitude" toward the Red Chinese. He described Nikita's shoe banging at the United Nations in 1960 as "harmful to the reputation of the Soviet Union throughout the world." And he raised the matter of nepotism. Khrushchev had proposed that his son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, be appointed to the Secretariat and placed in charge of agriculture...