Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passing through the guard lines, they make their way to their desks in the Great Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, a lofty room with canary-colored draperies hanging over tall windows in the south wall. In a gallery behind and above the Deputies, a few selected visitors, including foreign newsmen, are taking their places, while in a series of semicircular boxes on the north wall sit the foreign diplomats. At the far end of the hall, on a raised platform, is a set of pewlike enclosures. Men and women are also taking their places in these pews: they...
...Leap. How did Khrushchev jump so smartly from under secretary to First Secretary of the party, at Malenkov's expense? Outside the Kremlin, no one knows. In the months after Stalin's death, it was to the interest of all the jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas...
...Blaze. The gathering of all this ideological tinder had been made plain to all the world for weeks, but who would start the blaze, and when, and who would be burned, was something no man outside the Kremlin could foresee...
Gloomy Surprise. As they do whenever an internal emergency requires, the Kremlin's leaders thus callously abandoned a foreign policy line that had scored considerable gains. With Molotov's words, the dovecote sound of Malenkov's "coexistence" and "good life" line gave way to the anvil clank of the old Stalinesque "tough" line. The first outside reaction was gloomy surprise. The London Stock Exchange dipped at the news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador...
...chief protector and supplier (of MIGs, tanks and other hardware) is openly displaying internal weakness and severe production failures, at a time when Communism is trying to give the appearance of unbeatable strength and inexorable influence across Asia. In Red China's only public reaction to the Kremlin turnover. Premier Chou-En-lai cabled a curiously minimal message of congratulation to Bulganin. "I am confident," said Chou. "that you. under the leadership of the united monolithic Central Committee . . . will surely make great achievements in the cause of the great Soviet peoples' Communist construction and in defense of peace...