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Where Khrushchev, the proletarian, overflows with animal vigor, Bulganin exudes good manners 1;and a faint whiff of eau de cologne. Khrushchev's idea of fun is to strip off his shirt and wrestle with his colleagues; Bulganin's sport is fishing, and he loves ballet. "Dress Bulganin up in striped pants and a black coat, and he'd look at home in any European Parliament," says one Western diplomat. "Khrushchev in the same garb would still look what he isa tough proletarian...
...Watching Bulganin take hold of his new job as Premier, Moscow's foreign diplomats have been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin...
...BULGANIN : The only man among them who has experience in every aspect of Soviet leadership-police, party, industry, state and army. "He has no blind side," says one French authority. An American diplomat judges that Bulganin is stronger than most Westerners suspect. "I got the impression," said another, "that he takes orders from no man." In public appearances, however, he seems content to let Khrushchev steal the show...
...pull of personal ambition, the bent of Communist doctrine, and the lessons of Soviet experience (both Lenin and Stalin engraved personal dictatorship on the heart of the Communist state), are likely to impel one or another power-grabber to get too grabby. For the time being, however, Khrushchev, Bulganin & Co. seem to be resolved to make their committee work. Theirs is a community of interest in a good thing that they want to hang on to; a scuffle for power that jeopardized their police state might be the end of them all. One thing in their favor is that they...
...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...