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...Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward the big time...
...Central Committee was meeting, and that big shifts were in the making. Then, early one grey morning, when the newspapers of the Western world were already responding to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow, the 4:40 a.m. edition of Pravda broke it to Russians: Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich had fallen. They were...
...among the population is that those dismissed have no following." At a U.S. embassy party, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan-who, as usual, had lithely jumped the right way-promised: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." Scores of cities and towns named Molotov or Kaganovich petitioned with punctual unanimity to have their names changed. Ukrainian Premier Nikifor Kalchenko charged that during Stalin's reign Kaganovich had made "grave and unfounded accusations" against Ukrainian leaders, many of whom were purged. In Moscow, Presidium Alternate Alexei Kosygin said of Molotov and Kaganovich: "The basic fault that...
...except that he had been a functionary in the Moscow party organization (Malenkov's old stamping ground) and that his meteoric rise resembled that of many technocrat commissars. In his new job he ranks as one of the Soviet Union's six First Deputy Premiers (the others: Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Molotov, Pervukhin, Saburov...
...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...