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Nobody (except Stalin) could say just what Beria's replacement meant, UNO delegates saw a connection with Vice Commissar Vishinsky's unexplained absence from London. Was the Red Army about to blow its top? President Mikhail Kalinin had publicly admitted it would be tough to keep returning soldiers down on the farm (TIME, Nov. 19). Some observers guessed that Trouble Shooter Beria had been given the job of holding down discontent...
...Masters of Souls. It was right and natural that Party organizers and officials should get the good things first. Kalinin reminded them that they take the place of many Tsarist officials, "the police chief, the chairman of the district nobility, the chairman of the elected district council, the inspector of people's education, the dean of the cathedral...
Souls & Smoking Jackets. Returning Red Army men have been disturbed by an experience just -the reverse of that which disturbs American G.I.s in Europe. Said Kalinin...
Bolsheviks of Kalinin's generation excor iated "capitalists imperialists" for ex ploiting patriotism and national aggran dizement in order to take the people's minds off their bellies. Kalinin now prac ticed what he used to denounce...
...Kalinin put it : "Even now, after the very greatest victory known to history, we cannot for get for a single moment one basic fact -our country remains the single socialist state in the world. You can say this openly to the collective farmers. . . . Only the most direct danger which threatened us from Germany has disappeared." The Old School. Even this cogent demagoguery would not overcome all op, position. Kalinin was not wholly sorry; he hoped that the people would talk back to the organizers. (The tragedy of all successful revolutionaries is that they must hand over the power...