Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shifting dynamics of the cold war, the Kremlin, oft-defeated, is turning to a new offensive technique: "missile diplomacy." Every day of every week Moscow rolls out pronouncements about the successes of its experiments with intercontinental ballistic missiles. In the day of the missile, says Russia's Boss Nikita Khrushchev, Europe might become "a veritable cemetery," and the U.S. is "just as vulnerable." His own recurring theme, tossed off at cocktail parties, pounded home by Moscow radio and repeated last week: "Bombers are useless, compared to rockets...
...Song. That evening, to wind up the anniversary program, the aristocracy of the Communist world flocked to the Grand Palace of the Kremlin, where once the Czars and their nobles made merry. Jauntily, Nikita Khrushchev moved among his hard-drinking guests, smiling and shaking hands like a ward boss. Once, captured by an excited female comrade, he let himself be whirled through a few dance steps to the accompaniment of shouts of "Molodets!" (bravo). Later, somewhere in the background, half-drowned out by laughter and the clatter of dinner plates, an orchestra burst into the strains of an old song...
...gentry disporting themselves in the Kremlin, 40 years of Communist power had provided all those things and more. But, as always happens when the gentry are having a ball, the kitchen help and field hands were harder pressed than ever. In the mines and factories of Russia's satellites last week, tens of millions of people "celebrated" the Bolshevik Revolution fittingly by working an extra shift without...
Within the crenelated Kremlin walls, a different drama had been enacted. There the Red Army's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Defense Minister, the man who used the weight of the army to keep Nikita S. Khrushchev in power last summer, was stripped of his jobs and brainwashed (see FOREIGN NEWS). Khrushchev, clearly the dictator, master of what he could see, menaced by what he could not see, drank a champagne toast. "In life," he said, "one cell must die and another take its place. But life goes...
...there a danger that the spectacle of another Kremlin power struggle would mar the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution? Nikita Khrushchev took care of it by sending a dog soaring into space with a whoosh that drowned out all other noises. With every beep from Sputnik II the world got a stark reminder of Russia's strength. If they could send 1,120.8 Ibs. (53 times the weight of the proposed U.S. satellite) more than 1,000 miles into space, the Soviets certainly had a rocket capable of reaching any point on earth...