Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many thanks for your [section on] "Death in the Kremlin" in the March 16 issue. It was truly a masterpiece of information. As usual, TIME gives its readers what they are asking...
Ever since Stalin's death, the Kremlin gang had been passing out a carefully blended mixture of honey and vinegar which seemed to signal a softening of Soviet foreign policy. The first clues to the new Communist policy were small and ambiguous. Last week, however, came two stronger indications of a new line...
...offer to settle the "one question alone" which prevents a Korean truce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Thus, the Red right hand had struck while the left hand held out an olive branch. This familiar pattern of pugnacity mixed with conciliation undoubtedly had its place in the world strategy of the Kremlin's new management; within the Korean frame of reference, its meaning seemed fairly clear. The military attacks said, in effect: "Don't think, just because we are offering peace, that we are weak or frightened-you see, we are still able and willing to fight...
...Soviet radio last week broadcast news of a "general amnesty" for perhaps hundreds of thousands locked inside Russian prisons. It was the third such decree to be proclaimed in the 35 years the Communists have been in power.* Like most decrees from the Kremlin, this was a carefully contrived pudding of prose which would have to be tasted for awhile before it could be judged. It called for immediate release of 1) those serving prison sentences of less than five years for crimes of "no great danger to the state," and 2) all pregnant women, women with children under...
...occasion for this particular amnesty, the Kremlin explained, is "the increase in well-being and cultural standards of the population." The likely explanation is considerably less hopeful: Malenkov & Co., in need of as much public acquiescence as they can muster while they nail down the power they inherited from Stalin, are unlocking a few cell doors to appease the population, but throwing away none of the keys which make all of Russia's 210 millions their prisoners...