Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stooped and paunchy but still very recognizable figure, the man with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
...case of Nikolai Bulganin: Feb. 8, 1955-Named Premier of Russia after long years of service as a commissar and then a marshal whose main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...
June 13-At a Moscow reception, when asked what became of Bulgy, Khrushchev says, "You can buy a bouquet of flowers and visit Bulganin in a hospital...
...want to see Bulganin, buy a bouquet of flowers and go visit him at the hospital." Bulganin, demoted from Premier, "has been very ill" and has just had a "successful but serious" operation. Will he go back to his job as head of the state bank? "Now you are interfering in our internal affairs," grinned Khrushchev. ¶ How about Malenkov, supposedly managing a hydroelectric station in eastern Kazakhstan since his downfall last June? "You can buy a ticket and go visit him," shrugged Khrushchev. "I have not seen him in a long time, but the last time I heard...