Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and Molotov, and in many a dingy meeting hall from Thuringia to Tibet, dutiful comrades set to study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy...
...buildup began for the new Premier, the Cossack with the shady past and forbidding presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
...photograph showing him with Stalin and China's Mao Tse-tung-just the three of them. This proved to be a mutilation of a picture taken three years ago at the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty; some 15 other Soviet big shots, including No. 2 Man Lavrenty Beria and No. 3 Man Molotov, were excised from the picture, and Malenkov was moved closer...
Signs of Nervousness. This week inside the Kremlin, in the palatial chamber of the Supreme Soviet, more than 1,200 voiceless legislators of the U.S.S.R. gave the façade of legality to the succession of Malenkov, Beria, Molotov & Co., formally "approved" unanimously the new government and the abolition of more than half the cabinet jobs that existed under Stalin. Some of the deputies had traveled for days from the Asiatic reaches of the U.S.S.R. to reach Moscow. They were ready to head for home after a "legislature" session of 67 minutes...
They were a physically unimpressive lot. One trait they shared with their new masters, Malenkov, Beria and Molotov: their small height. The ranks of the chief mourners, following the tall, uniformed pallbearers (see NEWS IN PICTURES), are a dumpy group, who could be posed alongside Stalin without dwarfing...