Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause...
...which the Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat ratified its contempt for the democratic process of free popular choice, the three Americans appointed by the State Department to observe the show went off to an interview with Nikita Khrushchev at the Communist Party's stucco-front headquarters near the Kremlin. The Americans-Cyril E. Black, professor of modern European history at Princeton University; Richard Scammon, director of elections research for Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute; and Hedley Donovan, managing editor of FORTUNE-were official guests of the Soviet government, repaying a visit that three Soviet observers had made...
...include freedom to choose, few Russians sat up listening for late returns on the balloting as 130 million eligible voters went to the polls this week. Students of the tides of power were more interested in Pravda's pre-election compilations of how many election districts nominated various Kremlin leaders as their candidates. In the past Stalin's name had led all the rest. 1958's score for Presidium members...
...wanted to help. He negotiated a five-year Russo-Indian trade deal, helped get a slow-building but photogenic propaganda Russian steel mill for India, did a bang-up job of setting up Bulganin and Khrushchev's triumphal Indian tour, and even gave Nehru, on behalf of the Kremlin, a personal twin-engined Ilyushin plane. Said one Indian editor: "He didn't hit the headlines all the time, but he made a deep impression where it counted in the government...
...Soviet Ambassador Menshikov is one of the ablest, perhaps the ablest, of the Kremlin diplomats, a man dedicated to the proposition that no infiltration works quite as well as amiable respectability. He is a man expertly versed in change of pace; yet he is nonetheless a hard-core Red. In Asia, he was denouncing "certain colonial powers, particularly the United States." As if the cold war were a U.S. aberration, he says now: "The Soviet Union has no intention of imposing its ideas on any people by force." From sunup to bedtime, he goes about his rounds with...