Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic material for peaceful purposes (TIME, Dec. 14), a Soviet spokesman shrilled over the Moscow radio that Eisenhower had "threatened atomic war" with his "war mongering speech." But last week, after most of the free world had enthusiastically endorsed the Eisenhower plan as a step to peace, the Kremlin moderated its tone and agreed to the President's proposals for "confidential or diplomatic talks" between Russia and the Western powers to work out the details...
Lavrenty P. Beria, a man who ordered the death of millions, was himself put to death last week. After a secret trial that lasted five days, the Kremlin announced that this "frenzied, insolent plotter . . . this contemptible Judas" had been found guilty of murder, espionage, treason, sabotage and perversion. He was condemned to the "highest degree of punishment, with confiscation of all property and removal of all titles and decorations" (seven Medals of the Soviet Union, five Orders of Lenin...
With Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union, were sentenced six of his top-ranking MVD generals and ex-ministers: Merkulov, Dekanozov, Kobulov, Goglidze, Meshik and Vlodzimirsky. On Dec. 23, 1953, said the Kremlin, all seven men were taken out and shot...
Exhilaration in the Valleys. It was a year to alter the riverbanks of history. A cease-fire without victory quieted Korea, but it was still the quiet of the dormant volcano. Mankind's greatest tyrant died; his death touched off a lupine scuffle for succession in the Kremlin and opened a new and unpredictable era for the tyranny Joseph Stalin fixed on half the globe. Radioactive dust particles borne east in a cloud from Siberia told the outside world that Russia, too, had plumbed the secret of the thermonuclear bomb and could now visit instantaneous death on the obscurest...
...loyal Malenkov men substituted as chiefs of the secret police. Whether the new regime had to call in the army to assist in the purge is still not clear, but one fact is: never before in the 36 years of Communist rule until the arrest of Beria, had the Kremlin found it necessary to announce that the leaders of the armed forces supported the authorities in the measures taken...