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NOBODY really knows all that goes on inside the Kremlin, but as Air Force General Nathan Twining said on his return from Moscow last year, there are "degrees of ignorance." When the big news broke of the sacking of Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, TIME began to dig for last week's comprehensive coverage and this week's Khrushchev cover story, tapping all the available intelligence sources in Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade. Bonn, Munich, London and Washington. To supplement the news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events...
...conspiratorial action." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star said that the accused had threatened to undermine the foundations of Soviet military security-a move "which would have played into the hands of the enemies of the Soviet state, the imperialist aggressors." Added the government newspaper Izvestia: "Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded the development of electrical power stations." At week's end Pravda was able to report a "wave of popular wrath...
...Hatching Cunning Schemes." The climax of the hate campaign came with an address given by Khrushchev to the workers of the Elektrosila factory in Leningrad, and broadcast nationally. Khrushchev accused Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich of "hatching cunning schemes" to obtain "key positions in the party," and called Shepilov "a most shameless double-dealing individual...
...this point Malenkov may have made common cause with those old Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev...
According to Warsaw, Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich all spoke during the debate, but on the next-to-last day, seeing the tide turning against them, all joined abjectly in a bout of selfcriticism. To get his unanimous vote of condemnation against them, Khrushchev was reported to have promised his crony Bulganin that sanctions would not be imposed on the four men: i.e., their lives would be spared. If Khrushchev so promised, would he keep that promise...