Word: kunaev
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...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...
...last week, all gratitude had drained from Nikita's heart. Growling that in their reports to the meeting the republic's Party Chief Nikolai Belyaev and Premier Dinmukhamed Kunaev had "lacked the courage to admit their shortcomings," Khrushchev announced bluntly that he would do it for them...
...speak the truth to you here, Comrades Kunaev and Belyaev, they .will applaud you in Kazakhstan, and you will tell them there was a meeting of the Central Committee and everything went off fine. Actually, things are bad, very...