Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned ahead of time with Khrushchev's connivance to set the stage for the sensational speech by Khrushchev that followed. Yet such are the intricacies of Kremlin politics that the one innocent victim of Stalinist slaughter cited by Mikoyan was Ukrainian Old Bolshevik Stanislav Kosior, whose successor in Kiev, as everybody in the hall knew, was the keen young Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev...
...joined the Red army and fought in the Ukraine during the 1918-20 Civil War. He caught the eye of Party Worker Kaganovich, and his career began, first as a minor party secretary at Stalino, then in Kiev. When Kaganovich was assigned to supervise the building of the Moscow subway, he brought in the untutored young tough from the Donets to watchdog the workers. Khrushchev got into the Moscow city party organization in 1931, and when Stalin started liquidating the party leaders Khrushchev quickly put himself on the road to power with a whole string of speeches condemning the fingered...
...hierarchy this did not matter so much because his victims had not been members of their families, but peasants and Ukrainians. Besides, he had a quality that could be put to great use at this moment. During World War II a Communist journalist, who had seen him scrambling over Kiev's rubble-filled Kreshchatik Street ahead of his entourage of generals and party officials, talking fast with his hands to everybody he met, put the quality in a few words: "He was the first Soviet leader I had ever seen walking among the people. It was obvious that they...
Heretical political thought exists in Russia as well as curiosity, Fainsod wrote. He mentoned three students of Kiev who read the Yugoslav paper Borba because they do not believe their own press. Khrushchev was not popular with this group. They preferred Malenkov because of his identification with the consumer goods policy. Other "heroes" were Zhukov and Voroshilov...
...Voices. It was hard to believe that in five days the 133 members of the Central Committee failed to take up such a pertinent topic as the spreading ferment of discontent in the universities. In Kiev and Azerbaijan, reported the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, students were in an "unhealthy state of mind," and at the Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked...