Word: kirilenko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brezhnev had no desire to speak to his former boss. So he instructed his first deputy in the Central Committee, Andrei Kirilenko, a rude and high- handed man, to summon Khrushchev and get him to drop the memoirs. Arvid Pelshe, the chief of the party Control Commission, attended to add pressure; everyone knew the Control Commission wasn't to be trifled with...
...Father is very upset," she said. "Yesterday he was summoned to the Central Committee. Kirilenko demanded that he cease work on the memoirs and hand over what's already been written. Father became infuriated and started to shout. He made a huge scene. He'll tell you everything but don't press him. He was very agitated yesterday, and he doesn't feel well...
Father told me what he had said to Kirilenko and Pelshe: "As a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I have the right to write my memoirs, and you don't have the power to deny me that right. I want what I write about to be of use to the Soviet people, to our Soviet leaders and to our nation. The events I have witnessed should serve as a lesson for our future...
...tried to reassure him but couldn't stop worrying myself. I had to find a way to store the material safely until better times came. But there was no absolutely safe place for the tapes and transcripts inside the country. As the conversation with Kirilenko had shown, Khrushchev's name provided only so much protection. Even before the confrontation at the Central Committee, it had occurred to us to look for a safe place abroad. At first Father had hesitated, out of fear that we'd lose control over the manuscript and that it might be distorted and used against...
...didn't have the foggiest idea of how to carry out this plan. But after Father's encounter with Kirilenko and Pelshe, we came back to the idea of finding a safe hiding place abroad. It was at this time that we first discussed publishing the memoirs as retaliation if they were seized, or in some other extraordinary situation. Publication would solve once and for all the problem of preserving the memoirs and might also reduce the Central Committee's incentive to seize and destroy them in the Soviet Union. Why should they try to search for them...