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...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...
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...
...laid on the hospitality. In the streets the crowds had been generally curious to see Tito, and paid more attention to him than to Khrushchev at his side (after all, had not Tito, alone of all those present, successfully defied Stalin?). Tito, for his part, assured the crowds at Kiev: "We have abandoned all that was bad between us," and at the Black Sea resort of Sochi he cried: "I feel at home in the Soviet Union, because we are part of the same family, the family of Socialism." And in Moscow he said, "We never betrayed the cause...
...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...