Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Joseph Stalin abolished the Politburo last October, the mystery inside an enigma (as Churchill once called it) of the Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...
...cold and colorless "100% Stalin man," has been given unfettered authority to discipline 6,880,000 members of the Russian Communist Party, and to weld together even more tightly the parallel monoliths of party and state. Wielding such power, Khrushchev has taken his place in the Kremlin's anteroom alongside Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov and Lavrenty Beria...
...took charge of the mass guerrilla movement that scorched the black earth of the Ukraine in the Wehrmacht's rear, won the Stalingrad Medal for his services as a political commissar. At war's end he went back to the war-charred Ukraine with orders from the Kremlin to 1) revive its agriculture and heavy industry; 2) liquidate the Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Nazis. He succeeded on both counts. "Half the leading workers have been done away with," he boasted...
...British in Moscow, like the Americans before them, last week got an eviction notice from their Russian landlords. They were given three months to find a new building for their embassy and get out of the 19th century sugar-baron's mansion across the Moskva river from the Kremlin, which they have occupied for nearly 25 years...
...margarine. Said the Swedish Dairy Association's export boss Bengt Dock: "This is an example of giving to Europe with one hand and taking with the other." Harry Truman sought to make political propaganda. Said he: "This is the kind of law which makes the job of the Kremlin's propaganda experts a great deal easier...