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...secret police and 15 divisions of elite troops, the ambitious policeman was in a perfect position to grab control. After tailing Beria for a few weeks, the Party Presidium realized that his coup could come any moment, and so they decided to spring the trap. Acting Party Boss Khrushchev buttonholed Marshal Kirill S. Moskalenko, then commandant of the Moscow antiaircraft defenses, asked him bluntly: "Have you some men who are willing to risk their lives?" Replied Moskalenko: "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: At the Kremlin Corral | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...problems. True to his word, Moskalenko had managed to smuggle a submachine gun into the building. He waited in the next room as the others started grilling Beria. They charged that he had been a secret agent for the British army during its occupation of Azerbaijan in 1918. Cried Khrushchev: "You are not a true Communist and never even joined a party organization." Beria, who was presumably above being frisked by his own men, pulled a gun. Khrushchev leaped on him, and Malenkov stubbed a floor buzzer to summon Moskalenko's men, who (according to slightly differing versions) either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: At the Kremlin Corral | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...measure, perversion. Ever since, there have been many, often conflicting, accounts of Beria's real end. The latest account, leaked in Warsaw last week by Polish delegates back from the 22nd Party Congress in Moscow, was the most detailed version to date and, said they, was told by Khrushchev himself at a glittering champagne party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: At the Kremlin Corral | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Interest in Israel and loyalty to the "alien" Jewish religion were severely punished by Stalin, who sent hundreds of Jewish artists and intellectuals to jail and killed many others. Under Khrushchev, anti-Semitism seemed to abate. While there are now no Jews in the eleven-member Party Presidium, there are prominent Jewish officers in the army, and many Russian space scientists are Jews. In recent years Khrushchev's regime has permitted limited publication of works by famed Jewish Writer Sholom Aleichem, allowed Jewish theatrical and variety troupes to be formed. Three months ago, the Kremlin for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Anti-Cosmopolitanism | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

From East Berlin's Stalinallee to a Paris suburb's Rue Staline,* street signs and statues last week were torn down as Khrushchev's destalinization drive continued. The campaign proceeded without much opposition. An exception was Italy, where Stalin's second death was the center of debate and confusion within the largest Communist party in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Still Stalin | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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