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Malenkov was running a power station at the end of the line in remote Kazakhstan. But the adroit Mr. Mikoyan was vacationing in proletarian luxury in his native Armenia last week...
...record now shows that at the time of the Spiridonovka party, another of his protégés, Armenian party Secretary Grigori A. Arutinov, political boss of Armenia since 1937, was being ousted. Some time later Mikoyan's trusted deputy in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, English-speaking Alexei D. Krutikov, was also expelled for "placing personal friendships above party and state interests," and the ministry was criticized for having covered up for Krutikov...
Last month the commissars of Leningrad, Armenia and Tula disappeared. More recently the Minister of Agriculture, Ivan Benediktov, was publicly denounced. Last week's announcement named six ministers and MVD generals to stand trial with Beria on charges of "high treason." They were all of Cabinet rank...
...Police Chief Lavrenty Beria's purgers "reorganized" and "consolidated" the government of 1) the Baltic Republic of Latvia, enslaved by the Red army in 1940, lost, and recaptured in 1944; 2) the Moldavian Soviet Republic, part of which was snatched from Rumania; 3) the Caucasian Mountain Republic of Armenia; 4) Azerbaijan, which hugs the Caspian Sea near the northern border of Iran. In all four "republics" the pattern was the same; a drastic tightening up of Soviet internal security, evidence perhaps that the death of Stalin encouraged the suppressed nationalities of the Soviet Union to hope for more freedom...
Georgia is a proud and fiery republic on the Black Sea, abutting on Armenia and Turkey, where Asia and Europe meet. A mountain-girt southland, incorporated in the Soviet Union in 1921, and still resentful of it, Georgia gave Communism two of its mightiest sons: Joseph Djugashvili