Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet industry is still far from having the capacity or complexity of U.S. industry, but it is big enough (more than 200,000 state enterprises, 100,000 more abuilding) to cause Western economists to wonder how it can all be managed from the Kremlin. The truth, revealed blunt Nikita Khrushchev, is that it has long been badly managed. In their desperate attempts to keep on top of the situation, the Moscow bureaucrats have created more than 30 industrial ministries-one for each major field of production. "Things have come to the point," grumped the First Party Secretary, "where the construction...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
Although the Hungarian uprising attracted far more sympathy and publicity in the United States than did similar events in Poland, the Polish transition has more immediate concern for America than the Hungarian failure. The United States cannot afford to lose any opportunity to weaken the ties between the Kremlin and a satellite, and the present situation in Poland presents just such an opportunity...
Having relied on Moscow for economic support since the close of the last war, Poland is now looking for outside aid. A trade delegation has come to the United States asking for $300 million in economic help. Such a move no doubt upset the Kremlin, and represents a significant, dangerous move away from Russia. While the requested total is extremely large, especially considering the uneasy and changeable state of Poland's politics, any economic tie between Poland and this nation would represent a major break in Russia's satellite rule. There are, moreover, obvious humanitarian reasons...
Amid all the onrush of speculation over whether Gromyko's appointment means a revival of the old hard-face Molotov policies, the basic fact remains that Russian Foreign Secretaries are not of the top circle of Kremlin leadership these days: they make the faces, but they do not make the policies. As if to underline this fact, and incidentally to acknowledge the abruptness of the change of ministers, the Kremlin announced that the "definitive" foreign-policy speech made four days earlier by Shepilov was still definitive, even though he had already lost...