Word: kazakhstan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...events. In November 1955, after studying the identities and associations of security officials purged in some trials in Tvilisi, Zorza concluded that onetime Premier Malenkov was in trouble-a full 16 months before he was relieved as Minister of Electric Power Stations and relegated to a job in remote Kazakhstan. In April 1957, one year before the Russians announced their unilateral suspension of A-bomb tests, Zorza ran a story from a Communist diplomatic source, reporting that Moscow was consulting its satellites about its plans to try this gambit...
...from Premier, "has been very ill" and has just had a "successful but serious" operation. Will he go back to his job as head of the state bank? "Now you are interfering in our internal affairs," grinned Khrushchev. ¶ How about Malenkov, supposedly managing a hydroelectric station in eastern Kazakhstan since his downfall last June? "You can buy a ticket and go visit him," shrugged Khrushchev. "I have not seen him in a long time, but the last time I heard, he was alive and well." What about the story that Malenkov had been injured while hunting? "Malenkov." said Khrushchev...
After a spell in a top Soviet prep school, he went on to two other educational experiences-a brief exile in Kazakhstan (for no reason except that all Germans had to go) and an unhappy love affair (his girl was recruited into the NKVD...
Such weapons might not be far to seek. Early harvests in the newly opened wheat fields of Kazakhstan were so poor that they threatened to make a fiasco of the "virgin lands" program that Khrushchev had rammed through almost singlehanded. From the far-off industrial zones around Irkutsk and Alma-Ata came reports that Khrushchev's decentralization of industry (TIME, April 15) had created such confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command...
Malenkov was running a power station at the end of the line in remote Kazakhstan. But the adroit Mr. Mikoyan was vacationing in proletarian luxury in his native Armenia last week...