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"To each vegetable its own time," says an old Russian proverb, to which latter-day Russians add, "and to every Bolshevik his day of confession." Last week confession day came around for the woodiest old vegetable in the Bolshevik truck garden: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin, better known by his party name...
Though less dramatic than the confession (of incompetence) which announced Georgy Malenkov's fall from Premier last February, Molotov's error was the more heinous for being ideological. At that same time Molotov had said: "Side by side with the Soviet Union, where the foundation of a Socialist...
Foreign diplomats who in recent months have closely watched (and sometimes admired) Molotov's tough, smiling, but guarded performance were not surprised. Since Stalin's death, the order of precedence among the U.S.S.R.'s "collective leaders" has changed subtly against Molotov. His letter of confession was dated...
After the war, a change came over Seth Dalmia. He devoted more and more time to public confession and philanthropic works. Most notable gift was to the Gandhi Memorial Fund, a gesture, he admitted publicly, that was made not from philanthropic impulse but because he expected it to help him...
...have kept them from confession for years. For absolution, penitents must talk directly to a priest; the church does not recognize telephone confessions. But, says Father Leppich of his telephone service, "it really is a confession-one that's a little easier on the confessor than the stuffy confessional...