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...Communists have always regarded their press as a prop of the regime. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Molotov all served time on Russian newspapers and used them to consolidate their power. "No tool so flexible," said Stalin, referring to the press, "is to be found in nature." Today, some 7,000 of these tools-ranging from the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, to crude factory handouts-are published in 121 languages in Russia...
Stalin, after copious draughts of vodka mixed with red pepper, had fallen asleep in his chair. Molotov, Malenkov and Beria, with fingers to their lips warned off intrusive domestics who might interfere with the great man's repose. While they guarded him, he had a dream...
Many other Russian cover subjects were liquidated, physically or politically-Beria, Bulganin, Malenkov, Molotov-after the emergence of Nikita Khrushchev. He made his first appearance on TIME'S cover a few months after Stalin's death, as head of the Economic Reform Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov...
...nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R. and Uruguay. In addition, about 50 countries have shown an official "interest" in signing, and presumably will do so soon...
...famed previous occasion was the night in 1953 when the entire Presidium except one trooped into the Bolshoi. The absence of Secret Police Chief Lavrenty Beria led experts to suspect that he had been purged by his pals. This proved to be correct; they had shot him two days before...