Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for a Tito. Inside the Kremlin, walled off from the biting Moscow winter, they held council of cold war with their superiors. They came not as sovereign heads of state, but as servants, and they returned to their countries to rule in the name of Malenkov as they had previously ruled in the name of Stalin...
...built his reputation without need of the bayonets of the Red army. Unlike Tito, the East European satellites have no orbits of their own; they are just the men in Moscow's moons-without popular following in their countries, their power dependent on slavish obedience to the Kremlin...
...newspapers and radio orators bathed the country in praise of Stalin and his works, but the Chinese Reds handled Malenkov's succession with almost cold reserve, were slow to slip into anything resembling a real buildup of the new Kremlin boss. In a long panegyric to the late Stalin, Mao's only reference to Stalin's successor was: "We fully believe the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, headed by Comrade Malenkov, will definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward . . ." First the party...
...Kremlin rulers took extraordinary pains to please Mao Tse-tung. His funeral delegation got places of honor. In the orations and proclamations, the other "People's Republics" were lumped together, but Mao's was always singled out first for praise. Malenkov assigned a key man as new ambassador to Peking-Vasily Kuznetsov, newly named a deputy foreign minister, and member of last fall's shortlived, 36-man Soviet Presidium. A bright star of Malenkov's generation (52) who headed the Soviet trade-union movement until recently, Kuznetsov once punched a time clock at Ford...
...Ideologically, Peking and Moscow are blood brothers. Of all the Kremlin's allies, Mao, to judge by his own behavior, should be the last to flinch at cruelties, big lies or broken promises...