Word: kaganovich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever the practiced diplomat, he remembered the demands of the day, and got happy. Later, Mikoyan danced an Armenian folk dance in the center of a group of singing diplomats and Russians, led by Bolshoi Theater stars. Molotov and Khrushchev sang old Russian folk songs, and First Deputy Premier Kaganovich got so emotional over a song called I Met You that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes...
...KAGANOVICH: An old hand, perhaps the most self-effacing of the lot, and therefore apt to be underrated on the outside, but regarded as a steadying influence among rival factions...
...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...
Bulganin joined the party at the age of 22, a few crucial months before the Revolution. He thus qualifies as one of the few Old Bolsheviks still in power in the Kremlin (the others: Voroshilov, Molotov, Kaganovich). Bulganin served his apprenticeship as an agitator, making trouble among the textile workers. After the fighting, he switched to the Cheka, where he bloodily put the agitators down. It was Kaganovich who sent Bulganin to Moscow to serve on the High Soviet of People's Economy. The High Soviet's appointed task: "To catch up with and surpass America...
Mayor of Moscow. As a result of Bulganin's efforts, the Moscow Electrical Station fulfilled its target in the first Five-Year Plan in less than three years. Bulganin's reward was an assignment to succeed Kaganovich as chairman of the Moscow Soviet-in effect, Mayor of Moscow. Bulganin built boulevards and six bridges across the Moskva River. From Britain and France he imported such "improvements" as a fleet of trolley buses and a set of spanking white gloves for the capital's traffic cops. Bulganin worked with Kaganovich and Khrushchev, then a district party boss...