Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the non-Communist world had never thought to hear admitted, the leaders of world Communism last week openly confessed. The Kremlin itself published proof positive that Soviet "justice" is based on torture, that Soviet "truth" can err. Of all the recent curious shifts of wind over Moscow's vast Red Square, this was the strangest...
Switch from Stalin. Published in Soviet newspapers and beamed by Radio Moscow to the U.S. and Europe, the announcement of the doctors' release was a spectacular repudiation of the anti-Zionist campaign launched with Stalin's approval in the last months of his life. It was the Kremlin's first open admission that its secret police can err, the first time that the Soviet people had heard from their rulers' lips that torture has been used as a method of police interrogation. Whatever dire necessity, of intrigue or revenge, had moved the Malenkov government to risk...
...three have reason not to want a further airing of murder in the Kremlin. Malenkov, whose reputation suffers from the widespread belief that it was he who arranged Zhdanov's death (for he had most to gain), may also feel the need to clear his name by proving that his rival's death was due to natural causes...
Police Chief Beria has a similar selfish motive. When Stalin's Kremlin first unmasked the "doctor assassins" three months ago, the "organs of state security" (i.e., the secret police) were condemned for "laxity." Beria, at the time, was not formally in charge of the secret police, but the charges did seem to reflect on his competence. Now that he has emerged as a Deputy Premier, with absolute control over both internal affairs and secret police, Beria may be determined to destroy those who slurred...
Slansky Stays Hanged. Did the new reversal also undo the Kremlin's anti-Zionist campaign? Hard-pressed Israel hoped it did, and expressed its readiness to resume diplomatic relations with Moscow. The Kremlin had broken with Israel as one of the repercussions of the "fiendish" plot that was now proclaimed a phony. (Another alleged plot of the Zionists, the one in Czechoslovakia, could not be undone so easily: Communist Rudolf Slansky and ten of his pals had already been garroted...